On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 3:48 PM Curtis Paul <curtiswp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It sounds like NewTicker will dynamically adjust to keep tick time "accurate". > > Does anyone know if the time data that NewTicker returns (i.e. via it's > channel, etc...) includes monotonic time? > And if so is the definition of NewTicker referring to adjusting real time > clock or monotonic clock? > > I'm not really sure what to expect with using ticker in terms of timing > accuracy. > Is NewTicker() monotonic?
Tickers use the monotonic clock. > Also not quite sure what "Stop the ticker to release associated resources" > refers to. > > time.NewTicker() > > "NewTicker returns a new Ticker containing a channel that will send the time > with a period specified by the duration argument. It adjusts the intervals or > drops ticks to make up for slow receivers. The duration d must be greater > than zero; if not, NewTicker will panic. Stop the ticker to release > associated resources." In the current implementations of Go, Tickers are not garbage collected. They run until they are stopped. So if you don't stop a ticker, it will keep ticking until your program exits. (It is possible that future implementations will garbage collect Tickers, but it still won't hurt to stop a ticker that you no longer need.) Ian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAOyqgcWccj0n1D%2BhaKvPRU0eVSDeJENDyBXzPMxb6p4WkHZiDw%40mail.gmail.com.
