Re: [Python-ideas] add a global tick register to the interpreter?

Sturla Molden <sturla@...> writes:

In Windows we get precise timings using QueryPerformanceCounter and QueryPerformanceFrequency. On Linux it would be uclock and UCLOCKS_PER_SEC. An C extension using the proposed API would have to call these functions itself. The proposed registers are thus not for timing, but for measuring how many times the interpreter has ticked and tocked.

Well, given I plan to propose a removal of the whole "ticking" scheme (see the "newgil" branch in the sandbox if you are curious), I am personally not terribly interested in giving access to the current counters :-) However, a cross-platform API for accessing high-resolution timers could be nice. Regards Antoine.