Swift's native Clocks are inefficient

• swift

  217 66,132 10.0 C++

  The Swift Programming Language

  

According to their changelog[0], Clock was added to the standard library with Swift 5.7, which shipped in 2022, at the same time as iOS 16. It looks like static linking by default was approved[1] but development stalled[2].

I expect that it's as simple as that: It's supported on iOS 16+ because it's dynamically linked by default, against a system-wide version of the standard library. You can probably try to statically link newer versions on old OS versions, or maybe ship a newer version of the standard library and dynamically link against that, but I have no idea how well those paths are supported.

0. https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

1. https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals...

2. https://github.com/apple/swift-package-manager/pull/3905

• swift-evolution

  127 15,073 9.7 Markdown

  This maintains proposals for changes and user-visible enhancements to the Swift Programming Language.

  

According to their changelog[0], Clock was added to the standard library with Swift 5.7, which shipped in 2022, at the same time as iOS 16. It looks like static linking by default was approved[1] but development stalled[2].

I expect that it's as simple as that: It's supported on iOS 16+ because it's dynamically linked by default, against a system-wide version of the standard library. You can probably try to statically link newer versions on old OS versions, or maybe ship a newer version of the standard library and dynamically link against that, but I have no idea how well those paths are supported.

0. https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

1. https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals...

2. https://github.com/apple/swift-package-manager/pull/3905

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• swift-package-manager

  7 9,609 9.7 Swift

  The Package Manager for the Swift Programming Language

  

According to their changelog[0], Clock was added to the standard library with Swift 5.7, which shipped in 2022, at the same time as iOS 16. It looks like static linking by default was approved[1] but development stalled[2].

I expect that it's as simple as that: It's supported on iOS 16+ because it's dynamically linked by default, against a system-wide version of the standard library. You can probably try to statically link newer versions on old OS versions, or maybe ship a newer version of the standard library and dynamically link against that, but I have no idea how well those paths are supported.

0. https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

1. https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals...

2. https://github.com/apple/swift-package-manager/pull/3905

• absolute_time

  2 11 0.0 C

  Ruby gem providing a reliable, monotonically increasing timer for measuring time intervals

There's also a Ruby gem that uses it for better-than-Benchmark high-precision timing.

https://github.com/bwbuchanan/absolute_time/blob/master/ext/...

https://rubygems.org/gems/absolute_time

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