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Use monotonic time when available #73
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Currently, PHP doesn't support and built-in way to access the system's monotonic time. That might change in PHP 7.2. I plan to implement a hrtime() function providing access to the high-resolution monotonic system time. If UV is available, but another loop is used, uv_hrtime() could be used in the meantime.
This issue exists to keep track of any improvements in PHP itself and to not forget implementing hrtime() in the future.
https://externals.io/thread/592#email-14248 updated: https://externals.io/message/97502
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clue commentedon Feb 8, 2017
I think this makes perfect sense and I'm sure we're going to add this once we have a reliable
hrtime()implementation available 👍(FWIW, this has also already been reported as part of #34)
clue commentedon Nov 11, 2017
Ping @kelunik, what is the status here?
kelunik commentedon Nov 11, 2017
It didn't make it into PHP 7.2, maybe it'll be in PHP 7.3.
php/php-src#2368
clue commentedon Dec 4, 2017
I still think that using a monotonic time source make perfect sense. However, this is currently not available on PHP by default and it's unclear when the above PR lands in a future PHP version.
I'd like to make this actionable, so I've just added relevant documentation via #130 and marked this ticket as resolved for now.
I'm happy to look into this again once a monotonic time source is available in PHP by default 👍