Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Oct 22 13:19:54 CEST 2009

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M.-A. Lemburg <mal <at> egenix.com> writes:
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> I'm not sure I understand why time.clock() should be considered
> broken.

Because in some cases you want comparable high-resolution numbers from distinct
processes.

> time.clock() is used for measuring process CPU time

According to the docs, under Windows it measures wall-clock time rather than CPU
time.

Regards

Antoine.

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