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On 7/9/21 5:13 PM, rempas wrote:
>On Friday, 9 July 2021 at 20:54:21 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
>On Friday, 9 July 2021 at 20:43:48 UTC, rempas wrote:
>I'm reading the library reference for core.time and It says that the duration is taken in "hnsecs" and I cannot understand if we can change that and choose the precision. Does anyone know if we can do that?
It is stored internally in "hnsecs", but you can convert it to other units using the total method [1]; for example, myDuration.total!"nsecs".
It doesn't work for me. I have the following code:
MonoTime start = MonoTime.currTime();
// Doing stuff
MonoTime end = MonoTime.currTime();
Duration dur = end - start;
dur = dur.total!"nsecs";
and I get the following error message:
"Error: cannot implicitly convert expression `dur.total()` of type `long` to `Duration`"
BTW Duration is truncating here. MonoTime stores its values in implementation-defined ticks, which can be nanoseconds or any other thing that the specific clock uses. Whereas Duration uses strictly hnsecs.
If you want to get sub-hnsec resolution, use the ticks member of MonoTime and ticksPerSecond and do the math for the units.
See the warning here.
-Steve
