tstime/mono: new package

Package mono provides a fast monotonic time.

Its primary advantage is that it is fast:
It is approximately twice as fast as time.Now.
This is because time.Now uses two clock calls,
one for wall time and one for monotonic time.

We ask for the current time 4-6 times per network packet.
At ~50ns per call to time.Now, that's enough to show
up in CPU profiles.

Package mono is a first step towards addressing that.
It is designed to be a near drop-in replacement for package time.

Signed-off-by: Josh Bleecher Snyder <josh@tailscale.com>

tstime/mono/mono_test.go

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+// Copyright (c) 2021 Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package mono
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+func TestNow(t *testing.T) {
+	start := Now()
+	time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
+	if elapsed := Since(start); elapsed < 100*time.Millisecond {
+		t.Errorf("short sleep: %v elapsed, want min %v", elapsed, 100*time.Millisecond)
+	}
+}
+
+func BenchmarkMonoNow(b *testing.B) {
+	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+		Now()
+	}
+}
+
+func BenchmarkTimeNow(b *testing.B) {
+	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+		time.Now()
+	}
+}