diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6e1738124e..07ac44755a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+Sun Aug 24 10:35:54 2014  Pete Higgins  <pete@peterhiggins.org>
+
+	* lib/benchmark.rb (module Benchmark): define BENCHMARK_CLOCK
+	  (realtime): use Process.clock_gettime(BENCHMARK_CLOCK)
+	  Reduces allocations to improve performance [Feature #10165]
+
+	* test/benchmark/test_benchmark.rb (test_realtime_output): new test
+
 Fri Aug 22 20:23:54 2014  Koichi Sasada  <ko1@atdot.net>
 
 	* string.c (rb_fstring): fix condition (easy to cause infinite loop!).
diff --git a/lib/benchmark.rb b/lib/benchmark.rb
index bd3b07284f..eff6cb12ef 100644
--- a/lib/benchmark.rb
+++ b/lib/benchmark.rb
@@ -286,13 +286,21 @@ module Benchmark
                        label)
   end
 
+  # :stopdoc:
+  if defined?(Process::CLOCK_MONOTONIC)
+    BENCHMARK_CLOCK = Process::CLOCK_MONOTONIC
+  else
+    BENCHMARK_CLOCK = Process::CLOCK_REALTIME
+  end
+  # :startdoc:
+
   #
   # Returns the elapsed real time used to execute the given block.
   #
   def realtime # :yield:
-    r0 = Time.now
+    r0 = Process.clock_gettime(BENCHMARK_CLOCK)
     yield
-    Time.now - r0
+    Process.clock_gettime(BENCHMARK_CLOCK) - r0
   end
 
   module_function :benchmark, :measure, :realtime, :bm, :bmbm
diff --git a/test/benchmark/test_benchmark.rb b/test/benchmark/test_benchmark.rb
index b2239d486a..7e9653de05 100644
--- a/test/benchmark/test_benchmark.rb
+++ b/test/benchmark/test_benchmark.rb
@@ -152,4 +152,9 @@ BENCH
     t.add! { sleep 0.1 }
     assert_not_equal(0, t.real)
   end
+
+  def test_realtime_output
+    realtime = Benchmark.realtime { sleep 0.001 }
+    assert_in_delta 0.001, realtime
+  end
 end