[issue14397] Use GetTickCount/GetTickCount64 instead of QueryPerformanceCounter for monotonic clock

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> added the comment:

Yury Selivanov wrote:
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> Yury Selivanov <yselivanov at gmail.com> added the comment:
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>> A monotonic clock is not suitable for measuring durations, as it may still jump forward. A steady clock will not.
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> Well, Victor's implementation of 'steady()' is just a tiny wrapper, which uses 'monotonic()' or 'time()' if the former is not available.  Hence 'steady()' is a misleading name.

Agreed.

I think time.monotonic() is a better name.

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