# \[ANN\] hitimes 1.0.3 Released

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**Category:** ruby-talk\
**Created:** [29 June 2009 00:24 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-hitimes-1-0-3-released/54176 "2009-06-29T00:24:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jeremy\_Hinegardner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/65b543/32.png) [@Jeremy\_Hinegardner](https://rubytalk.org/u/Jeremy_Hinegardner)\
**Post date:** [29 June 2009 00:24 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-hitimes-1-0-3-released/54176/1 "2009-06-29T00:24:10Z")

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hitimes version 1.0.3 has been released.

{{ Release notes for Version 1.0.3 }}

\* Windows gem is now a fat binary to support installing in 1.8 or 1.9  
&nbsp;&nbsp;from the same gem  
\* Fix bug with time.h on linode (reported by Roger Pack)  
\* Fix potential garbage collection issue with Interval class

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

&nbsp;&nbsp;gem install 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.

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