[julia-users] Where does all the time go?

[Thomas Hatch]

First off, Julia is fantastic! I am just trying to figure out out something 
odd I am seeing with the time() function.

if I write this code in julia:

tic() 
start = time() 
sleep(1) 
done = time() 
toc() 
println(done - start)

I get this output

elapsed time: 1.092225041 seconds 
1.0776820182800293

That is more than 1 second, the same code in python (no tic and toc of 
course) shows 0.01 over 1 second.

So I am just curious, where do the extra 0.07 seconds come from?