gecko/xpcom/ds/TimeStamp.h

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#ifndef mozilla_TimeStamp_h
#define mozilla_TimeStamp_h

#include "prinrval.h"
#include "nsDebug.h"

namespace mozilla {

class TimeStamp;

/**
 * Instances of this class represent the length of an interval of time.
 * Negative durations are allowed, meaning the end is before the start.
 * 
 * Internally the duration is stored as a PRInt64 in units of
 * PR_TicksPerSecond() when building with NSPR interval timers, or a
 * system-dependent unit when building with system clocks.  The
 * system-dependent unit must be constant, otherwise the semantics of
 * this class would be broken.
 */
class NS_COM TimeDuration {
public:
  // The default duration is 0.
  TimeDuration() : mValue(0) {}
  // Allow construction using '0' as the initial value, for readability,
  // but no other numbers (so we don't have any implicit unit conversions).
  struct _SomethingVeryRandomHere;
  TimeDuration(_SomethingVeryRandomHere* aZero) : mValue(0) {
    NS_ASSERTION(!aZero, "Who's playing funny games here?");
  }
  // Default copy-constructor and assignment are OK

  double ToSeconds() const;
  // Return a duration value that includes digits of time we think to
  // be significant.  This method should be used when displaying a
  // time to humans.
  double ToSecondsSigDigits() const;

  static TimeDuration FromSeconds(PRInt32 aSeconds);
  static TimeDuration FromMilliseconds(PRInt32 aMilliseconds);

  TimeDuration operator+(const TimeDuration& aOther) const {
    return TimeDuration::FromTicks(mValue + aOther.mValue);
  }
  TimeDuration operator-(const TimeDuration& aOther) const {
    return TimeDuration::FromTicks(mValue - aOther.mValue);
  }
  TimeDuration& operator+=(const TimeDuration& aOther) {
    mValue += aOther.mValue;
    return *this;
  }
  TimeDuration& operator-=(const TimeDuration& aOther) {
    mValue -= aOther.mValue;
    return *this;
  }

  PRBool operator<(const TimeDuration& aOther) const {
    return mValue < aOther.mValue;
  }
  PRBool operator<=(const TimeDuration& aOther) const {
    return mValue <= aOther.mValue;
  }
  PRBool operator>=(const TimeDuration& aOther) const {
    return mValue >= aOther.mValue;
  }
  PRBool operator>(const TimeDuration& aOther) const {
    return mValue > aOther.mValue;
  }

  // Return a best guess at the system's current timing resolution,
  // which might be variable.  TimeDurations below this order of
  // magnitude are meaningless, and those at the same order of
  // magnitude or just above are suspect.
  static TimeDuration Resolution();

  // We could define additional operators here:
  // -- convert to/from other time units
  // -- scale duration by a float
  // but let's do that on demand.
  // Comparing durations for equality will only lead to bugs on
  // platforms with high-resolution timers.

private:
  friend class TimeStamp;

  static TimeDuration FromTicks(PRInt64 aTicks) {
    TimeDuration t;
    t.mValue = aTicks;
    return t;
  }

  // Duration in PRIntervalTime units
  PRInt64 mValue;
};

/**
 * Instances of this class represent moments in time, or a special
 * "null" moment. We do not use the non-monotonic system clock or
 * local time, since they can be reset, causing apparent backward
 * travel in time, which can confuse algorithms. Instead we measure
 * elapsed time according to the system.  This time can never go
 * backwards (i.e. it never wraps around, at least not in less than
 * five million years of system elapsed time). It might not advance
 * while the system is sleeping. If TimeStamp::SetNow() is not called
 * at all for hours or days, we might not notice the passage of some
 * of that time.
 * 
 * We deliberately do not expose a way to convert TimeStamps to some
 * particular unit. All you can do is compute a difference between two
 * TimeStamps to get a TimeDuration. You can also add a TimeDuration
 * to a TimeStamp to get a new TimeStamp. You can't do something
 * meaningless like add two TimeStamps.
 *
 * Internally this is implemented as either a wrapper around
 *   - high-resolution, monotonic, system clocks if they exist on this
 *     platform
 *   - PRIntervalTime otherwise.  We detect wraparounds of
 *     PRIntervalTime and work around them.
 */
class NS_COM TimeStamp {
public:
  /**
   * Initialize to the "null" moment
   */
  TimeStamp() : mValue(0) {}
  // Default copy-constructor and assignment are OK

  /**
   * Return true if this is the "null" moment
   */
  PRBool IsNull() const { return mValue == 0; }
  /**
   * Return a timestamp reflecting the current elapsed system time. This
   * is monotonically increasing (i.e., does not decrease) over the
   * lifetime of this process' XPCOM session.
   */
  static TimeStamp Now();
  /**
   * Compute the difference between two timestamps. Both must be non-null.
   */
  TimeDuration operator-(const TimeStamp& aOther) const {
    NS_ASSERTION(!IsNull(), "Cannot compute with a null value");
    NS_ASSERTION(!aOther.IsNull(), "Cannot compute with aOther null value");
    return TimeDuration::FromTicks(mValue - aOther.mValue);
  }

  TimeStamp operator+(const TimeDuration& aOther) const {
    NS_ASSERTION(!IsNull(), "Cannot compute with a null value");
    return TimeStamp(mValue + aOther.mValue);
  }
  TimeStamp operator-(const TimeDuration& aOther) const {
    NS_ASSERTION(!IsNull(), "Cannot compute with a null value");
    return TimeStamp(mValue - aOther.mValue);
  }
  TimeStamp& operator+=(const TimeDuration& aOther) {
    NS_ASSERTION(!IsNull(), "Cannot compute with a null value");
    mValue += aOther.mValue;
    return *this;
  }
  TimeStamp& operator-=(const TimeDuration& aOther) {
    NS_ASSERTION(!IsNull(), "Cannot compute with a null value");
    mValue -= aOther.mValue;
    return *this;
  }

  PRBool operator<(const TimeStamp& aOther) const {
    NS_ASSERTION(!IsNull(), "Cannot compute with a null value");
    NS_ASSERTION(!aOther.IsNull(), "Cannot compute with aOther null value");
    return mValue < aOther.mValue;
  }
  PRBool operator<=(const TimeStamp& aOther) const {
    NS_ASSERTION(!IsNull(), "Cannot compute with a null value");
    NS_ASSERTION(!aOther.IsNull(), "Cannot compute with aOther null value");
    return mValue <= aOther.mValue;
  }
  PRBool operator>=(const TimeStamp& aOther) const {
    NS_ASSERTION(!IsNull(), "Cannot compute with a null value");
    NS_ASSERTION(!aOther.IsNull(), "Cannot compute with aOther null value");
    return mValue >= aOther.mValue;
  }
  PRBool operator>(const TimeStamp& aOther) const {
    NS_ASSERTION(!IsNull(), "Cannot compute with a null value");
    NS_ASSERTION(!aOther.IsNull(), "Cannot compute with aOther null value");
    return mValue > aOther.mValue;
  }
  PRBool operator==(const TimeStamp& aOther) const {
    // Maybe it's ok to check == with null timestamps?
    NS_ASSERTION(!IsNull(), "Cannot compute with a null value");
    NS_ASSERTION(!aOther.IsNull(), "Cannot compute with aOther null value");
    return mValue == aOther.mValue;
  }
  PRBool operator!=(const TimeStamp& aOther) const {
    // Maybe it's ok to check != with null timestamps?
    NS_ASSERTION(!IsNull(), "Cannot compute with a null value");
    NS_ASSERTION(!aOther.IsNull(), "Cannot compute with aOther null value");
    return mValue != aOther.mValue;
  }

  // Comparing TimeStamps for equality should be discouraged. Adding
  // two TimeStamps, or scaling TimeStamps, is nonsense and must never
  // be allowed.

  static NS_HIDDEN_(nsresult) Startup();
  static NS_HIDDEN_(void) Shutdown();

private:
  TimeStamp(PRUint64 aValue) : mValue(aValue) {}

  /**
   * When built with PRIntervalTime, a value of 0 means this instance
   * is "null". Otherwise, the low 32 bits represent a PRIntervalTime,
   * and the high 32 bits represent a counter of the number of
   * rollovers of PRIntervalTime that we've seen. This counter starts
   * at 1 to avoid a real time colliding with the "null" value.
   * 
   * PR_INTERVAL_MAX is set at 100,000 ticks per second. So the minimum
   * time to wrap around is about 2^64/100000 seconds, i.e. about
   * 5,849,424 years.
   *
   * When using a system clock, a value is system dependent.
   */
  PRUint64 mValue;
};

}

#endif /* mozilla_TimeStamp_h */