On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:29:10 +0200 Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The descriptions should really stress the scope of the result's > > validity. My guess (or wish :-)) would be: > > > > - time.monotonic(): system-wide results, comparable from one process to > > another > > - time.perf_counter(): process-wide results, comparable from one thread > > to another (?) > > - time.process_time(): process-wide, by definition > > time.monotonic() and time.perf_counter() are process-wide on Windows > older than Vista because of GetTickCount() overflow, on other OSes, > they are system-wide.
Perhaps, but you should say in the PEP, not here ;-) By the way, I wonder if it may be a problem if monotonic() is process-wide under Windows. > All OSes provide a monotonic clock, except GNU/Hurd. You mean that it > should be mentioned in the time.monotonic() section? Yes, that would be clearer. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com