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diff Doc/lib/libtime.tex @ 18623:35fec487bcef legacy-trunk
Revise the description of time.clock() so that it correctly describes the
Windows version of the function as well as the Unix flavor.
This fixes SF bug #441357.
| author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> |
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| date | Mon, 16 Jul 2001 15:40:57 +0000 |
| parents | 346dcafc878b |
| children | c942a9821d09 |
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--- a/Doc/lib/libtime.tex Mon Jul 16 14:46:13 2001 +0000 +++ b/Doc/lib/libtime.tex Mon Jul 16 15:40:57 2001 +0000 @@ -126,12 +126,18 @@ \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{clock}{} -Return the current processor time as a floating point number expressed in +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''\index{CPU time}\index{processor time}, depends on -that of the C function of the same name, but in any case, this is the -function to use for benchmarking\index{benchmarking} Python or timing -algorithms. +of ``processor time''\index{CPU time}\index{processor time}, depends +on that of the C function of the same name, but in any case, this is +the function to use for benchmarking\index{benchmarking} Python or +timing algorithms. + +On Windows, this function returns the nearest approximation to +wall-clock time since the first call to this function, based on the +Win32 function \cfunction{QueryPerformanceCounter()}. The resolution +is typically better than one microsecond. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{ctime}{\optional{secs}}
