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Auto merge of #29894 - alexcrichton:stdtime, r=brson
This commit is an implementation of [RFC 1288][rfc] which adds two new unstable types to the `std::time` module. The `Instant` type is used to represent measurements of a monotonically increasing clock suitable for measuring time withing a process for operations such as benchmarks or just the elapsed time to do something. An `Instant` favors panicking when bugs are found as the bugs are programmer errors rather than typical errors that can be encountered. [rfc]: rust-lang/rfcs#1288 The `SystemTime` type is used to represent a system timestamp and is not monotonic. Very few guarantees are provided about this measurement of the system clock, but a fixed point in time (`UNIX_EPOCH`) is provided to learn about the relative distance from this point for any particular time stamp. This PR takes the same implementation strategy as the `time` crate on crates.io, namely: | Platform | Instant | SystemTime | |------------|--------------------------|--------------------------| | Windows | QueryPerformanceCounter | GetSystemTimeAsFileTime | | OSX | mach_absolute_time | gettimeofday | | Unix | CLOCK_MONOTONIC | CLOCK_REALTIME | These implementations can perhaps be refined over time, but they currently satisfy the requirements of the `Instant` and `SystemTime` types while also being portable across implementations and revisions of each platform. cc #29866
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