# Hitimes 1.0.0 Released

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**Created:** [June 13, 2009, 6:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hitimes-1-0-0-released/170170 "2009-06-13T06:34:23Z")\
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hitimes version 1.0.0 has been released.

gem install hitimes

[http://copiousfreetime.rubyforge.org/hitimes/](http://copiousfreetime.rubyforge.org/hitimes/)

Hitimes is a fast, high resolution timer library for recording  
performance metrics. It uses the appropriate C method calls for each  
system to get the highest granularity time increments possible.

It currently supports any of the following systems:

- any system with the POSIX call clock\_gettime()
- Mac OS X
- Windows

Using Hitimes can be faster than using a series of Time.new calls, and  
it will have a much higher granularity. It is definitely faster than  
using Process.times.

{{ Release notes for Version 1.0.0 }}

- Major version bump with complete refactor of the metric collection API
- 3 types of metrics now instead of just 1 Timer
  - ValueMetric
  - TimedMetric
  - TimedValueMetric

- The ability to convert all metrics #to\_hash
- Updated documentation with examples using each metric type