Why not "weakNanoTime" for jdk9?
Martin Buchholz
martinrb at google.com
Fri Mar 6 19:35:51 UTC 2015
We all know that nanoTime has problems. Many (most?) users of nanoTime,
especially for benchmarking or concurrent algorithms, don't really care
about the monotonicity guarantee and just want a "best-effort"
"as-efficient-as-possible" version of nanoTime. Sure, some algorithms in
java.util.concurrent might need to change slightly to accommodate nanoTime
going backwards, but we already do this to some extent.
http://shipilev.net/blog/2014/nanotrusting-nanotime/
Some users have already created such a private nanoTime.
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