thread.c: use rb_hrtime_t scalar for high-resolution time operations
Relying on "struct timespec" was too annoying API-wise and
used more stack space. "double" was a bit wacky w.r.t rounding
in the past, so now we'll switch to using a 64-bit type.
Unsigned 64-bit integer is able to give us over nearly 585
years of range with nanoseconds. This range is good enough
for the Linux kernel internal time representation, so it
ought to be good enough for us.
This reduces the stack usage of functions while GVL is held
(and thus subject to marking) on x86-64 Linux (with ppoll):
thread.c: use rb_hrtime_t scalar for high-resolution time operations
Relying on "struct timespec" was too annoying API-wise and
used more stack space. "double" was a bit wacky w.r.t rounding
in the past, so now we'll switch to using a 64-bit type.
Unsigned 64-bit integer is able to give us over nearly 585
years of range with nanoseconds. This range is good enough
for the Linux kernel internal time representation, so it
ought to be good enough for us.
This reduces the stack usage of functions while GVL is held
(and thus subject to marking) on x86-64 Linux (with ppoll):
[ruby-core:88582] [Misc #15014]
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@64533 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e