[erlang-questions] System timers, now/0, and instrumentation

[Amy Lear]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Raimo Niskanen
<raimo+erlang-questions@REDACTED> wrote:
> The reason the provided profiling tools rely on now/0 is mostly
> that it has been around as long as they, plus the fact that
> now/0 never moves backwards, mostly moves forwards kind
> of sanely and is fairly lightweight makes it a nice but possibly
> somewhat inaccurate compromise for a generic profiling tool.

This makes sense.

> No. There is currenly nothing better built in than erlang:now/0 and
> os:timestamp/0. They could probably be improved on Windows but it
> was quite a while since we had anyone requiring (as in providing
> resources) us developing Erlang for Windows.
>
> Side note: timer:tc/2,3 is about / has been converted to use
> os:timestamp/0 instead.

Okay, good to know. I'm continuing to look into it from my end, and
maybe I'll find something that could be usable to other people.

Thanks for your time and attention.