What time is it?

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:03 PM, jicman<cabrera_ at _wrc.xerox.com> wrote:
> Chad J Wrote:
>
>> Max wrote:
>> > Is there any way in Phobos to measure the current time with microsecond accuracy?
>> >
>> > Max
>>
>> Might I suggest std.perf?
>>
>> I found it here some years ago:
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/techtips/timing_code.html
>>
>> It even seems to have survived the transition from D1 to D2.
>>
>> Oddly enough, this rather useful module never seems to never be included
>> in the web documentation.  :(
>>
>> Just read the comments in the source file that comes with your compiler.
>> {dmd-path}/src/phobos/std/perf.d
>>
>> I've always used PerformanceCounter with good results.
>
> I also use it.  Why does it not get inserted on D1 and D2?
>
> thanks,
>
> josé

std.perf was added *years* ago, in D's infancy. It wasn't even written
by Walter, so the docs never made it into the DM pages. The
documentation embedded in it isn't even DDoc, it's Doxygen. It's
always been sort of a misfit.