Re: Useing the processor clock, or get time in Femptoseconds

2011-01-30 Thread John Nagle
On 1/30/2011 8:14 PM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote: If you are on windows, you can use high-resolution timers. What you are trying is physically impossible though: lets say you have a processor that runs at 2.5 GHz. that's 2.5 billion cycles per second, give or take a few. So, the lowest you can go i

Re: Useing the processor clock, or get time in Femptoseconds

2011-01-30 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
If you are on windows, you can use high-resolution timers. What you are trying is physically impossible though: lets say you have a processor that runs at 2.5 GHz. that's 2.5 billion cycles per second, give or take a few. So, the lowest you can go is nanoseconds. You're trying to time like 10x

Useing the processor clock, or get time in Femptoseconds

2011-01-30 Thread Garland Fulton
Does anyone have any suggestions? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list