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[Tim Peters]

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> from the Python library reference:
>
>     clock()
>
>     Return the current CPU time as a floating point
>     number expressed in seconds. The precision, and
>     in fact the very definition of the meaning of ''CPU
>     time'' , depends on that of the C function of the
>     same name
>
> ANSI C leaves the "era" and resolution open, and Microsoft
> has defined it as:
>
>     The clock function's era begins (with a value of 0)
>     when the C program starts to execute. It returns
>     times measured in 1/CLOCKS_PER_SEC (which
>     equals 1/1000 for Microsoft C).

Python doesn't use the MS clock() for time.clock() on Windows; it uses the
MS QueryPerformanceCounter API instead.  MS clock() is approximately useless
for anything (yes, it has millisecond resolution, but is updated less than
20 times per second; while even on Win95, QueryPerformanceCounter typically
has better then microsecond resolution and updating).