time.clock() going backwards??

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

 "Grant Edwards" <grante at visi.com> Wrote:

| On 2006-08-28, Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
|
| >>> For processors that run at (say) 2GHz, several million (say 10
| >>> million) represents a difference of 10e6/2e9 = 0.005 seconds
| >>> between when the processors were sufficiently powered up to
| >>> start counting cycles.
| >
| >> If it were so, than why can't the delta of time between the
| >> processors be set to exact zero?
| >
| > This is
|
| Oops.  Hit the wrong key.  I meant to say:

Thank god! - I know you are not an idiot - and for some minutes you had me
guessing - I was beginning to think that my brain had finally been destroyed by
drink - trying to figure out this enigmatic post...  :-)

- Hendrik

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