Package com.yahoo.concurrent

Interface Timer

All Known Implementing Classes:
SystemTimer
public interface Timer
This interface wraps access to some timer that can be used to measure elapsed time, in milliseconds. This abstraction allows for unit testing the behavior of time-based constructs.
Author:
Simon Thoresen Hult

  • Method Summary

    Modifier and Type
    Method
    Description
    long
    milliTime()
    Returns the current value of some arbitrary timer, in milliseconds.

  • Method Details

    • milliTime

      long milliTime()
      Returns the current value of some arbitrary timer, in milliseconds. This method can only be used to measure elapsed time and is not related to any other notion of system or wall-clock time.
      Returns:
      The current value of the timer, in milliseconds.