Windows also has this albeit course grained and also 32 bit. I don't think ticks reflects the reason why using the timer is desirable.
monotonic_time seems reasonable, there's no reason to persist short names when users can import it how they like. On Mar 16, 2012 7:20 AM, "Steven D'Aprano" <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Terry Reedy wrote: > >> On 3/15/2012 5:27 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Matt Joiner<anacro...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> +1. I now prefer time.monotonic(), no flags. >>>> >>> >>> Am I alone thinking that an adjective is an odd choice for a function >>> name? >>> >> >> I would normally agree, but in this case, it is a function of a module >> whose short name names what the adjective is modifying. I expect that this >> will normally be called with the module name. >> >> I think monotonic_clock or monotonic_time would be a better option. >>> >> >> time.monotonic_time seems redundant. >> > > Agreed. Same applies to "steady_time", and "steady" on its own is weird. > Steady what? > > While we're bike-shedding, I'll toss in another alternative. Early Apple > Macintoshes had a system function that returned the time since last reboot > measured in 1/60th of a second, called "the ticks". > > If I have understood correctly, the monotonic timer will have similar > properties: guaranteed monotonic, as accurate as the hardware can provide, > but not directly translatable to real (wall-clock) time. (Wall clocks > sometimes go backwards.) > > The two functions are not quite identical: Mac "ticks" were 32-bit > integers, not floating point numbers. But the use-cases seem to be the same. > > time.ticks() seems right as a name to me. It suggests a steady heartbeat > ticking along, without making any suggestion that it returns "the time". > > > > -- > Steven > > ______________________________**_________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/python-dev<http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev> > Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/**mailman/options/python-dev/** > anacrolix%40gmail.com<http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/anacrolix%40gmail.com> >
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