Caplin nanotime library

JNI library for nanosecond precision timestamps in Java 8.

Timestamp Accuracy

The accuracy of timestamps can only be as accurate as the timestamps supplied by the operating system.

Supported Platforms

Nanosecond precision timestamps are supported by the following operating systems:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
• Windows 7
• Windows 10
• Apple macOS 10.12 (Sierra) and higher
• ARM platforms

Building the project

To build the project, run:

./gradlew clean build

This will build the C distributable for your platform, and package it up in the jar.

To amalgamate distributables for all supported platforms (Linux, Windows, Arm and Mac), run:

buildAllPlatformsJar

Note that this will only work within the Caplin domain.

Publishing

This is a two stage build process. Note that publishing and downloading the platform specific distributables is only available within the Caplin domain.

The first stage is to build the distributable for each supported platform, and publish them to the Caplin artifactory:

./gradlew clean publishDistributablePublicationToMavenRepository

The second stage is to amalgamate the distributables within a jar, and publish the jar:

./gradlew clean publishAllPlatformsJarPublicationToMavenRepository

Usage

Clock clock = new NanoClock();
Instant now = clock.instant();

Benchmarks

Benchmarks can be run using:

./gradlew clean jmh

These are the benchmark results for NanoClock.instant() compared to System.currentTimeMillis() and SystemClock.instant(). Benchmarks were conducted on Centos 7 64-bit.

Benchmark                                       Method                      Mode  Cnt   Score   Error  Units
NanoClockBenchmark.measureGetNanoClockTime      NanoClock.instant()         avgt  200  37.287 ± 0.833  ns/op
NanoClockBenchmark.measureGetSystemClockTime    SystemClock.instant()       avgt  200  39.589 ± 0.927  ns/op
NanoClockBenchmark.measureGetSystemCurrentTime  System.currentTimeMillis()  avgt  200  30.546 ± 0.430  ns/op