> time.perf_counter() > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Performance counter with the highest available precision to measure a > duration. It does include time elapsed during sleep and is > system-wide. The reference point of the returned value is undefined, > so that only the difference between the results of consecutive calls > is valid and is a number of seconds.
It's maybe time for bikeshedding! Glyph wrote me in private: "IMHO, perf_counter should be performance_counter() or high_precision(); the abbreviation is silly :)" The time module has other abbreviated names. I don't have a preference between time.perf_counter() or time.performance_counter(). Solaris provides CLOCK_HIGHRES, "the nonadjustable, high-resolution clock." If we map CLOCK_xxx names to functions name, we have: * CLOCK_MONOTONIC: time.monotonic() * CLOCK_HIGHRES: time.highres() (whereas Windows provides QueryPerformanceCounter -> performance_counter) I suppose that most people don't care that "resolution" and "precision" are different things. Victor _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
