> | This is the original reason for the original defect (issue 10278)
> | unix' clock() doesn't actually provide a clock in this sense, it provides a
> resource usage metric.
>
> Yeah:-( Its help says "Return the CPU time or real time since [...]".
> Two very different things, as demonstrated. I suppose neither goes
> backwards, but this seems like a classic example of the "useless
> monotonic clock" against which Greg Ewing railed.
>
> And why? For one thing, because one can't inspect its metadata to find
> out what it does.
Should I add another key to the result of
time.get_clock_info('clock')? How can we define "clock on Windows"
(almost monotonic and steady clock) vs "clock on UNIX" (CPU time) with
a flag or a value?
Victor
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