[issue37205] time.perf_counter() is not system-wide on Windows, in disagreement with documentation

[Eryk Sun]

Eryk Sun <eryksun at gmail.com> added the comment:

> suggest to use time.perf_counter_ns() instead of time.perf_counter() 
> for best precision.

QPC typically has a frequency of 1e7, which requires 24 bits for the fraction of a second. So a system can be up for years before the 53-bit precision of a float is an issue. What am I missing?

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