New submission from STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@gmail.com>: The commit a997c7b434631f51e00191acea2ba6097691e859 of bpo-31415 moved the implementation of time.perf_counter() from Modules/timemodule.c to Python/pytime.c. The change not only moved the code, but also changed the internal type storing time from floatting point number (C double) to integer number (_PyTyime_t = int64_t).
The drawback of this change is that time.perf_counter() now converts QueryPerformanceCounter() / QueryPerformanceFrequency() double into a _PyTime_t (integer) and then back to double. Two useless conversions required by the _PyTime_t format used in Python/pytime.c. These conversions introduced a loss of precision. Try attached round.py script which implements the double <=> _PyTime_t conversions and checks to check for precision loss. The script shows that we loose precision even with a single second for QueryPerformanceFrequency() == 3579545. It seems like QueryPerformanceFrequency() now returns 10 ** 7 (10_000_000, resolution of 100 ns) on Windows 8 and newer, but returns 3,579,545 (3.6 MHz, resolution of 279 ns) on Windows 7. It depends maybe on the hardware clock, I don't know. Anyway, whenever possible, we should avoid precision loss of a clock. ---------- components: Interpreter Core files: round.py messages: 304239 nosy: haypo priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Rewrite _PyTime_GetWinPerfCounter() for _PyTime_t type: enhancement versions: Python 3.7 Added file: https://bugs.python.org/file47217/round.py _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue31773> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
