status-go/vendor/github.com/aristanetworks/goarista/atime/nanotime.go

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// Copyright (C) 2016 Arista Networks, Inc.
// Use of this source code is governed by the Apache License 2.0
// that can be found in the COPYING file.
// Package atime provides a fast monotonic clock source.
package atime
import (
_ "unsafe" // required to use //go:linkname
)
//go:noescape
//go:linkname nanotime runtime.nanotime
func nanotime() int64
// NanoTime returns the current time in nanoseconds from a monotonic clock.
// The time returned is based on some arbitrary platform-specific point in the
// past. The time returned is guaranteed to increase monotonically at a
// constant rate, unlike time.Now() from the Go standard library, which may
// slow down, speed up, jump forward or backward, due to NTP activity or leap
// seconds.
func NanoTime() uint64 {
return uint64(nanotime())
}