id t returns a unique, consistent identifier which can be used e.g. as a map or hash table key.

create ~now () creates a new simulated time source. The default timing_wheel_config has 100 microsecond precision, with levels of >1s, >1m, >1h, >1d. The timing_wheel_config is used to tune performance; configuration does not affect the fact that alarms fire in non-decreasing time order.

is_wall_clock reports whether this time source represents 'wall clock' time, or some alternate source of time.

The behavior of now is special for wall_clock (); it always calls Time_ns.now (), so it can return times that the time source has not yet been advanced to.

Removes the special behavior of now for wall_clock (); it always returns the timing wheel's notion of now, which means that the following inequality always holds: timing_wheel_now () <= now ().

run_at t at f schedules an alarm that will run f during the next subsequent advance_by_alarms t ~to_ that causes now t >= at. If at <= now t, then f will to run at the next call to advance_by_alarms. f is allowed to do all Synchronous_time_source operations except for advance_by_alarms (because f is already running during advance_by_alarms. Adding alarms is not zero-alloc and the underlying events live in the OCaml heap.

run_after t span f is run_at t (now t + span) f.

run_at_intervals t span f schedules f to run at intervals start + k * span, for k = 0, 1, 2, etc. run_at_intervals raises if span < alarm_precision t.

If start is earlier than now t, the first call to f run on the next call to advance_by_alarms. This differs from the behaviour of Time_source.run_at_intervals.

max_allowed_alarm_time t returns the greatest at that can be supplied to add. max_allowed_alarm_time is not constant; its value increases as now t increases.

duration_of t f invokes f and measures how long it takes for the call to finish.

A time source with now t given by wall-clock time (i.e. Time_ns.now), and automatically advanced at the start of each Async cycle. The wall clock uses the same timing wheel as that used by the Async scheduler, and is hence similarly affected by the ASYNC_CONFIG environment variable.

length t returns the number of alarms in the underlying Timing_wheel.

next_alarm_runs_at t returns a time to which the clock can be advanced such that an alarm will fire, or None if t has no alarms that can ever fire.

Note that this is not necessarily the minimum such time, but it's within alarm_precision of that.

If an alarm was already fired (e.g. because it was scheduled in the past), but its callbacks were not run yet, this function returns Some now, to indicate that a trivial time advancement is sufficient for those to run.

• deprecated [since 2021-06] Use [next_alarm_runs_at]

advance_by_alarms t ~to_ advances t's time to to_, running callbacks for all alarms in t whose at <= to_. Callbacks run in nondecreasing order of at. If to_ <= now t, then now t does not change (and in particular does not go backward), but alarms with at <= to_ may still may fire.

advance_by_alarms_by t by is equivalent to: advance_by_alarms t ~to_:(Time_ns.add (now t) by)

A version of advance_by_alarms with some weird behavior caused by timing wheel alarm_precision: if there are multiple alarms within the same timing_wheel precision bucket, then this function fires them all at the same time (when the last of the bunch of alarms is supposed to fire). The time to_ counts as an alarm for this purpose. (any alarms in the same bucket as to_ will be fired at time to_.

advance_by_alarms has no such weirdness, and fires every alarm at the time that alarm is scheduled.

Instead of advance_directly, you probably should use advance_by_alarms. advance_directly t ~to_ advances the clock directly to to_, whereas advance_by_alarms advances the clock in steps, to each intervening alarm. In particular periodic/rearming timers will fire at most twice.

advance_directly_by t by is equivalent to: advance_directly_by t ~to_:(Time_ns.add (now t) by)

This value is close to next_alarm_fires_at but differs from it by at most alarm_precision. Requires a more expensive iteration of alarms.

This is a closer approximation of the minimum time at which an alarm will fire, but it's still not there (you need min_alarm_time_... for that).

Returns true iff there is work to do without advancing time further. (This can be caused by scheduling events in the past, or starting a recurring event.)