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| author | qmuntal <quimmuntal@gmail.com> | 2023-07-31 11:00:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Quim Muntal <quimmuntal@gmail.com> | 2023-08-01 13:51:01 +0000 |
| commit | 913874367959f4f18a0299c91593c841e91b6808 (patch) | |
| tree | 48844bb0c20f1cd252fd80048975e3e4c6be4e17 /src/time | |
| parent | be0e0b06ac53d3d02ea83b479790404057b6f19b (diff) | |
| download | go-913874367959f4f18a0299c91593c841e91b6808.tar.gz go-913874367959f4f18a0299c91593c841e91b6808.zip | |
time: mention time resolution in docs
Updates #44343
Updates #53824
Change-Id: Ia7234fac4b1b88b3c331328aaa98dc85205e09ba
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/514275
Reviewed-by: David Chase <drchase@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gopher Robot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
Run-TryBot: Quim Muntal <quimmuntal@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/time')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/time/time.go | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/time/time.go b/src/time/time.go index e8aac5999a..26872b1c05 100644 --- a/src/time/time.go +++ b/src/time/time.go @@ -76,6 +76,16 @@ // For debugging, the result of t.String does include the monotonic // clock reading if present. If t != u because of different monotonic clock readings, // that difference will be visible when printing t.String() and u.String(). +// +// # Timer Resolution +// +// Timer resolution varies depending on the Go runtime, the operating system +// and the underlying hardware. +// On Unix, the resolution is approximately 1ms. +// On Windows, the default resolution is approximately 16ms, but +// a lower resolution may be requested using [timeBeginPeriod]. +// +// [timeBeginPeriod]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/timeapi/nf-timeapi-timebeginperiod package time import ( |