ANN: a new utility for Python developers
Skip Montanaro
skip at pobox.com
Tue Aug 21 08:56:09 EDT 2001
Erno> time.clock() already measures cpu time on one platform (badly, on
Erno> unix) and wall clock time on another (windows), no?
The limitations of Unix's CPU time granularity and the single-task nature of
Windows doesn't mean the semantics of time.clock should be broken to get
higher resolution. Besides, what about NT? Doesn't it distinguish between
tasks?
Erno> okay, not strictly wall clock time but cpu clock cycles. but
Erno> still something that doesn't stop running when you block or
Erno> something else runs.
I'm not sure I understand this. I assume you're just telling me that the
underlying Windows CPU timer functions are broken.
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