Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Sat Mar 24 03:26:15 CET 2012

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Victor Stinner wrote:
>>> - time.clock(): monotonic clock on Windows, CPU time on UNIX
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>> Actually, I think that is not correct. Or at least *was* not correct in
>> 2006.
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>> http://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/527849-time-clock-going-backwards
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> Oh, I was not aware of this issue. Do you suggest to not use
> QueryPerformanceCounter() on Windows to implement a monotonic clock?

I do not have an opinion on the best way to implement monotonic to guarantee 
that it actually is monotonic.


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Steven

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