Malte Helmert added the comment: Alexander, regarding your comments:
1. sysconf in general returns a long because it can return all sorts of information, but os.times() returns clock_t items, so the _SC_CLK_TCK value must comfortably fit into a clock_t. It's preferable to cast into a clock_t immediately rather than doing a conversion for each of the ensuing divisions. 2. Do you have indications that such platforms exist? In that case, indeed the patch should be adapted. Is that -1 return value documented somewhere? 3. I agree; 0 or -1 would be better. 4. You're right about the overhead, but someone (amk?) measured it and it's only 5% compared to the old buggy behaviour. It's still possible to do a million calls to os.times() from Python in a second, which is plenty fast enough. Clearly the speed could be improved, but it doesn't appear worth the complications to me. _____________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1040026> _____________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
