On Mar 30, 2012, at 8:51 PM, Victor Stinner wrote:

> time.highres() (QPC) rate is only steady during a short duration

QPC is not even necessarily steady for a short duration, due to BIOS bugs, 
unless the code running your timer is bound to a single CPU core.  
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms644904> mentions 
SetThreadAffinityMask for this reason, despite the fact that it is usually 
steady for longer than that.

-glyph

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