GCTime

Backport Ruby 3.1's GC.stat(:time) and GC.total_time. This gem is a noop on Ruby 3.1+.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'gctime'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install gctime

Usage

>> GC.measure_total_time
=> true
>> 4.times { GC.start }
=> 4
>> GC.stat(:time)
=> 123 # milliseconds
>> GC.stat[:time]
=> 123 # milliseconds
>> GC.total_time
=> 123909999 # nanoseconds
>> GC.measure_total_time = false # Disable instrumentation
=> false

GC.stat(:time) and GC.stat[:time] returns the total number of milliseconds spent in GC as Integer on MRI and as Float on JRuby and TruffleRuby.

GC.total_time returns the total number of nanoseconds spent in GC as Integer.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/Shopify/gctime.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.