On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 09:00:45 +0200 Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> wrote: > By the way, you mentionned that clocks are not synchronized. That's another > revelant point. Even if system clocks are synchronized on a single > computer, I read that you cannot reach nanosecond resolution for a NTP > synchronization even in a small LAN. > > For large systems or distributed systems, a "global (synchronized) clock" > is not an option. You cannot synchronize clocks correctly, so your > algorithms must not rely on time, or at least not too precise resolution. > > I am saying that to again repeat that we are far from sub-second nanosecond > resolution for system clock.
What does synchronization have to do with it? If synchronization matters, then your PEP should be rejected, because current computers using NTP can't synchronize with a better precision than 230 ns. See https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-achieve-low-latency/ Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
