GO-TIMER

Overview

A high performance timer with minimal goroutines.

How it works

Features

• One goroutine runs all
• Goroutine safe
• Clean and simple, no third-party deps at all
• High performance with timing-wheels algorithm
• Minimal resources use
• Managed data and handler
• Customizing channel
• Well tested

Usage

Quick Start

package main

import (
	"log"
	"time"

	timer "github.com/singchia/go-timer/v2"
)

func main() {
	t1 := time.Now()
	// new timer
	t := timer.NewTimer()
	// add a tick in 1s
	tick := t.Add(time.Second)
	// wait for it
	<-tick.C()
	// tick fired as time is up, calculate and print the elapse
	log.Printf("time elapsed: %fs\n", time.Now().Sub(t1).Seconds())
}

Async handler

package main

import (
	"log"
	"sync"
	"time"

	timer "github.com/singchia/go-timer/v2"
)

func main() {
	// we need a wait group since using async handler
	wg := sync.WaitGroup{}
	wg.Add(1)
	// new timer
	t := timer.NewTimer()
	// add a tick in 1s with current time and a async handler
	t.Add(time.Second, timer.WithData(time.Now()), timer.WithHandler(func(event *timer.Event) {
		defer wg.Done()
		// tick fired as time is up, calculate and print the elapse
		log.Printf("time elapsed: %fs\n", time.Now().Sub(event.Data.(time.Time)).Seconds())
	}))

	wg.Wait()
}

With cyclically

package main

import (
	"log"
	"time"

	timer "github.com/singchia/go-timer/v2"
)

func main() {
	t1 := time.Now()
	// new timer
	t := timer.NewTimer()
	// add cyclical tick in 1s
	tick := t.Add(time.Second, timer.WithCyclically())
	for {
		// wait for it cyclically
		<-tick.C()
		t2 := time.Now()
		// calculate and print the elapse
		log.Printf("time elapsed: %fs\n", t2.Sub(t1).Seconds())
		t1 = t2
	}
}

License

© Austin Zhai, 2015-2025

Released under the Apache License 2.0