"Giovanni Bajo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hello, > > I experimented something very strange, a few days ago. I was debugging an > application at a customer's site, and the problem turned out to be that > time.clock() was going "backwards", that is it was sometimes > (randomically) > returning a floating point value which was "less than" the value returned > by > the previous invokation. The computer was a pretty fast one (P4 3Ghz I > think, > running Windows XP), and this happened only between very close > invokations of > time.clock().
I seem to remember this being mentioned before on the list, perhaps by Tim Peters. Perhaps he will chime in. tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list