Curt Hagenlocher wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
>>
>> Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan <at> ccpgames.com> writes:
>>>
>>> You are right, on windows time.clock() is based relative to its first call
>>> in the process. There is no such promise made on unix.
>>> QueryPerformanceCounter() (what time.clock uses()) is a robust high
>>> resolution timer that is processor/core independent. It should be
>>> possible to use it across different processes too, if this
>>> annoying rebasing wasn't there.
>>
>> Well, could we simply have a high-resolution time.time()?
>> Or is Windows just too limited to provide this?
>
> Presumably you could fake something like this by combining output from
> an initial time(), an initial QueryPerformanceCounter() and the
> current QueryPerformanceCounter(). But it makes more sense to
> understand why someone chose to implement time.clock() on Windows the
> way they did -- this seems very broken to me, and I think it should be
> changed.
>
> Of course, there are no doubt people relying on the broken behavior...
I'm not sure I understand why time.clock() should be considered
broken.
time.clock() is used for measuring process CPU time and is usually
only used in a relative way, ie. you remember that start value,
do something, then subtract the end value from the start value.
For absolute CPU time values associated with a process, it's usually
better to rely on other APIs such as getrusage() on Unix.
You might want to have a look at the systimes module that
comes with pybench for some alternative timers:
Tools/pybench/systimes.py
This module tries to provide a cross-platform API for
process and system time:
""" systimes() user and system timer implementations for use by
pybench.
This module implements various different strategies for measuring
performance timings. It tries to choose the best available method
based on the platforma and available tools.
On Windows, it is recommended to have the Mark Hammond win32
package installed. Alternatively, the Thomas Heller ctypes
packages can also be used.
On Unix systems, the standard resource module provides the highest
resolution timings. Unfortunately, it is not available on all Unix
platforms.
If no supported timing methods based on process time can be found,
the module reverts to the highest resolution wall-clock timer
instead. The system time part will then always be 0.0.
The module exports one public API:
def systimes():
Return the current timer values for measuring user and system
time as tuple of seconds (user_time, system_time).
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documentation for further information on copyrights, or contact
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