I see that the documentation for the time module has this to say about
time.clock:
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”,
depends on that of the C function of the same name, but in
any case, this is the function to use for benchmarking Python
or timing algorithms.
In contrast, timeit defaults to using time.time() under all operating
systems other than Windows, and says:
...on Windows, clock() has microsecond granularity but
time()'s granularity is 1/60th of a second; on Unix,
clock() has 1/100th of a second granularity and time()
is much more precise.
Should timeit be changed, or the docs, or have I missed something?
--
Steven
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