On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:06:50 +1100
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
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> In contrast, timeit defaults to using time.time() under all operating
> systems other than Windows, and says:
>
> ...on Windows, clock() has microsecond granularity but
> time()'s granularity is 1/60th of a second; on Unix,
I see that the documentation for the time module has this to say about
time.clock:
On Unix, return the current processor time as a floating
point number expressed in seconds. The precision, and in fact
the very definition of the meaning of “processor time”,
depends on that of the