[issue10278] add time.wallclock() method

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> added the comment:

clock_gettime.patch: add time.clock_gettime() function and time.CLOCK_xxx constants. The patch requires to rerun "autoconf".

For the documentation, I don't know the availability of this function. Is it available on Windows? CLOCK_REALTIME doc contains "Setting this clock requires appropriate privileges": this sentence might be removed if we don't expose clock_settime.

The constants are not defined if the function is not available.

timemodule.c and datetimemodule.c are no more linked to libm. I don't know why libm was used? Copy/paste failure?

On Linux, clock_gettime() requires librt. I chose to check for librt in configure.in. To get this info in setup.py, I close to use the TIMEMODULE_LIBS define (in pyconfig.h). I don't know if there is something simpler.

time.clock_gettime() returns a float. It would be nice to keep nanoseconds as an integer, but I chose a float to mimic other time functions. If we need nanosecond resolution, a new function can be added.

The unit test is very simple, but less than time.clock() test :-)

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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file23083/clock_gettime.patch

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