Tempus Fugit

Synopsis

This is a Rust crate that operates around the concept of measuring the time it takes to execute an expression.

Convenience is the name of the game here, specifically by empowering a user to do 2 things:

1. Measuring the wall-clock time of any expression in nanosecond[1] resolution:

   [dependencies]
   tempus_fugit = "0.11"

   #[macro_use] extern crate tempus_fugit;
   
   use std::fs::File;
   use std::io::Read;
   use tempus_fugit::Measurement;
   
   fn main() {
       let (contents, measurement) = measure! {{
           let mut file = File::open("Cargo.lock")
               .expect("failed to open Cargo.lock");
           let mut contents = vec![];
           file.read_to_end(&mut contents)
               .expect("failed to read Cargo.lock");
           String::from_utf8(contents)
               .expect("failed to extract contents to String")
       }};
   
       println!("contents: {:?}", contents);
       println!("opening and reading file took {}", measurement);
   }

   The measure! macro returns a tuple containing the result of executing an expression (in this case a block), as well as a Measurement which indicates how long the expression took to execute.

2. Displaying a Measurement in a human-readable fashion. There is a Display impl for Measurement, so this is as easy as formatting a value with e.g. format!("{}", measurement).

The Measurement type also has impls for Ord and Eq, which makes comparison and sorting easy.

In addition, there is opt-in support for de/serialization through Serde. This is activated by using the follwing in your crate's Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
tempus_fugit = { version = "0.11", features = ["enable_serde"] }

[1] While the accounting is in nanosecond resolution, the actual resolution may be limited to courser granularity by the operating system.

Documentation

The API docs are located here.