org.ginsim.common.utils

Class Timer

java.lang.Object

org.ginsim.common.utils.Timer

public class Timer
extends Object

Simple spent-time collector: get current time and return time elapsed since the previous one.

Author:

Aurelien Naldi

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Timer() Create a timer, and initialize the base timestamp

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	reset() Reset timestamps: as if this object was just created.
long	shortStamp() Get the time elapsed since the last timestamp.
long	stamp() Get the time elapsed since the last reset.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Timer

public Timer()

Create a timer, and initialize the base timestamp

Method Detail

reset

public void reset()

Reset timestamps: as if this object was just created.

stamp

public long stamp()

Get the time elapsed since the last reset. This will get the current time and return the difference (in ms) since the creation (or reset) of this timer.

Returns:

the number of ms elapsed since the timer creation.

shortStamp

public long shortStamp()

Get the time elapsed since the last timestamp. This will get the current time and return the difference (in ms) since the previous measure (reset(), stamp() or shortStamp()).

Returns:

the number of ms elapsed since the previous time measure.