time.clock() or Windows bug?

Tim Roberts timr at probo.com
Wed Jun 11 02:05:03 EDT 2008


Nick Craig-Wood <nick at craig-wood.com> wrote:
>
>Hmmm, 10,000,000 cycles (40 ms @2.5GHz) is nowhere near the ~90,000
>second jump in time.clock() output reported by the OP.  I wonder if
>there could be a different cause?

Just wild theorizing, but it's possible that they are actually getting a
negative delta, and some kind of signed/unsigned manipulation produces the
90,000 number.
-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.



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