Added (hopefully) cross-platform love.timer.getMicroTime

src/modules/timer/sdl/Timer.cpp

@@ -90,6 +90,32 @@ namespace sdl
 		return (SDL_GetTicks() - time_init)/1000.0f;
 	}
 
+	float Timer::getMicroTime() const
+	{
+		#ifdef LOVE_WINDOWS
+			FILETIME ft;
+			unsigned __int64 t = 0;
+			GetSystemTimeAsFileTime(&ft);
+			t |= ft.dwHighDateTime;
+			t <<= 32;
+			t |= ft.dwLowDateTime;
+			t /= 10;
+			#if defined(_MSC_VER) || defined(_MSC_EXTENSIONS)
+				#define DELTA_EPOCH_IN_MICROSECS  11644473600000000Ui64
+			#else
+				#define DELTA_EPOCH_IN_MICROSECS  11644473600000000ULL
+			#endif
+			t -= DELTA_EPOCH_IN_MICROSECS;
+			float floatt = t/1000000.0f;
+			floatt %= 86400;
+			return floatt;
+		#else
+			timeval t;
+			gettimeofday(&t, NULL);
+			return t.tv_sec%86400 + t.tv_usec/1000000.0f;
+		#endif
+	}
+
 } // sdl
 } // timer
 } // love

src/modules/timer/sdl/Timer.h

@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@
 // SDL
 #include <SDL.h>
 
+#ifdef LOVE_WINDOWS
+	#include <time.h>
+#else
+	#include <sys/time.h>
+#endif
+
 // LOVE
 #include <common/Module.h>
 
@@ -112,6 +118,13 @@ namespace sdl
 		**/
 		float getTime() const;
 
+		/**
+		 * Gets the amount of time since the Epoch. Useful for timing too because
+		 * it is accurate to the microsecond.
+		 * @return The time (in seconds) since the Epoch.
+		 **/
+		float getMicroTime() const;
+
 	}; // Timer
 
 } // sdl

src/modules/timer/sdl/wrap_Timer.cpp

@@ -60,6 +60,12 @@ namespace sdl
 		return 1;
 	}
 
+	int w_getMicroTime(lua_State * L)
+	{
+		lua_pushnumber(L, instance->getMicroTime());
+		return 1;
+	}
+
 	// List of functions to wrap.
 	static const luaL_Reg functions[] = {
 		{ "step", w_step },
@@ -67,6 +73,7 @@ namespace sdl
 		{ "getFPS", w_getFPS },
 		{ "sleep", w_sleep },
 		{ "getTime", w_getTime },
+		{ "getMicroTime", w_getMicroTime },
 		{ 0, 0 }
 	};
 

src/modules/timer/sdl/wrap_Timer.h

@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ namespace sdl
 	int w_getFPS(lua_State * L);
 	int w_sleep(lua_State * L);
 	int w_getTime(lua_State * L);
+	int w_getMicroTime(lua_State * L);
 	extern "C" LOVE_EXPORT int luaopen_love_timer(lua_State * L);
 
 } // sdl