bug report: [ #447945 ] time.time() is not non-decreasing

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <mailman.996962708.27994.python-list at python.org>,
 <zooko at zooko.com> wrote:
>
>So I wrote a monotonically-increasing timer[2], which was a bit
>trickier than I thought it would be.  It comes with its own unit test,
>and if you have RunTests[3] then you can execute `timerutil.py' itself
>to run all of its tests.  The application which needs monotonically
>increasing timestamps is the `DoQ'[4] (the "do queue") -- a simple
>event scheduler that we use in Mojo Nation.

I suggest using Python longs instead (not ints -- they only provide 31
bits of precision on most platforms for your purpose).

But I think you've got an algorithmic problem: you said you wanted to
run certain events in a sequence.  Why aren't you combining all of those
events into a single package?
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