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  23 package org.graalvm.compiler.debug;
  24 
  25 import java.lang.management.ThreadMXBean;
  26 
  27 /**
  28  * A consistent source of timing data that should be used by all facilities in the debug package.
  29  */
  30 public class TimeSource {
  31     private static final boolean USING_BEAN;
  32     private static final ThreadMXBean threadMXBean;
  33 
  34     static {
  35         threadMXBean = Management.getThreadMXBean();
  36         if (threadMXBean.isThreadCpuTimeSupported()) {
  37             USING_BEAN = true;
  38         } else {
  39             USING_BEAN = false;
  40         }
  41     }
  42 
  43     /**
  44      * Gets the current time of this thread in nanoseconds from the most accurate timer available on
  45      * the system. The returned value will be the current time in nanoseconds precision but not
  46      * necessarily nanoseconds accuracy.
  47      * <p>
  48      * The intended use case of this method is to measure the time a certain action takes by making
  49      * successive calls to it. It should not be used to measure total times in the sense of a time
  50      * stamp.
  51      *
  52      * @return the current thread's time in nanoseconds
  53      */
  54     public static long getTimeNS() {
  55         return USING_BEAN ? threadMXBean.getCurrentThreadCpuTime() : System.nanoTime();
  56     }
  57 
  58 }