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[Python-Dev] PEP 418: Add monotonic clock

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Wed Mar 28 08:41:13 CEST 2012 
On 28.03.2012 06:45, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Victor Stinner
> <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If QueryPerformanceCounter() is monotonic, the API can be simplified to:
>>
>>  * time.time() = system clock
>>  * time.monotonic() = monotonic clock
>>  * time.hires() = monotonic clock or fallback to system clock
>>
>> time.hires() definition is exactly what I was trying to implement with
>> "time.steady(strict=True)" / "time.try_monotonic()".
> 
> Please don't call the fallback version "hires" as it suggests it may
> be higher resolution than time.time() and that's completely the wrong
> idea.

It's also a completely ugly name, since it's quite hard to figure out
what it is supposed to stand for in the first place.

Georg
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