CompileTime performance measurement

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, September 06, 2016 10:46:11 Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Sunday, 4 September 2016 at 00:04:16 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
> > Hi Guys.
> >
> > I recently implemented __ctfeWriteln.
> > Based on that experience I have now implemented another pseudo
> > function called __ctfeTicksMs.
> > That evaluates to a uint representing the number of
> > milliseconds elapsed between the start of dmd and the time of
> > semantic evaluation of this expression.
>
> For bigger CTFE programs it might be helpful.
> Milliseconds are a fairly low resolution, would think with hnsec
> or so makes a better unit. Using core.time.TickDuration for that
> would make sense.

If you're doing to do that use core.time.Duration. TickDuration is slated to
be deprecated once the functionality in Phobos that uses it has been
deprecated. Duration replaces its functionality as a duration, and MonoTime
replaces its functionality as a timestamp of the monotonic clock.

- Jonathan M Davis