Again, a simple benchmark:
Lomanics-iMac:~ lomanic$ time ./load_avg.old ; time ./load_avg
{load1:0.89,load5:0.99,load15:1.01} <nil>
real 0m0.019s
user 0m0.008s
sys 0m0.013s
{load1:0.8876953125,load5:0.98828125,load15:1.0146484375} <nil>
real 0m0.011s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.006s
This is faster and yields more precise results.
Empirical benchmark (calling to cpu.Info):
Lomanics-iMac:~ lomanic$ time ./cpu_info
info 0: {"cpu":0,"vendorId":"GenuineIntel","family":"6","model":"30","stepping":5,"physicalId":"","coreId":"","cores":2,"modelName":"Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6440HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz","mhz":2590,"cacheSize":256,"flags":["syscall","xd","em64t","lahf","lzcnt","prefetchw","rdtscp","tsci","fpu","vme","de","pse","tsc","msr","pae","mce","cx8","apic","sep","mtrr","pge","mca","cmov","pat","pse36","clfsh","mmx","fxsr","sse","sse2","htt","sse3","ssse3","cx16","sse4.1","sse4.2","popcnt","vmm"],"microcode":""}
real 0m0.049s
user 0m0.023s
sys 0m0.041s
Lomanics-iMac:~ lomanic$ time ./cpu_info.fixed
info 0: {"cpu":0,"vendorId":"GenuineIntel","family":"6","model":"30","stepping":5,"physicalId":"","coreId":"","cores":2,"modelName":"Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6440HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz","mhz":2590,"cacheSize":256,"flags":["fpu","vme","de","pse","tsc","msr","pae","mce","cx8","apic","sep","mtrr","pge","mca","cmov","pat","pse36","clfsh","mmx","fxsr","sse","sse2","htt","sse3","ssse3","cx16","sse4.1","sse4.2","popcnt","vmm","syscall","xd","em64t","lahf","lzcnt","prefetchw","rdtscp","tsci"],"microcode":""}
real 0m0.010s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.006s
manual available memory calculation should be done if only memavail is false
Manual Available Memory calculation under kernel 3.14
accurate manaul available memory calculation