[issue7946] Convoy effect with I/O bound threads and New GIL

[Nir Aides]

Nir Aides <nir at winpdb.org> added the comment:

> But on a busy system, won't measuring wall clock time rather than CPU time give bogus results?

This was the motivation for using clock_gettime(). I tried the wall clock version under load (including on single core system) and it seems to behave. Now it remains to rationalize it :)

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