[issue37205] time.perf_counter() is not system-wide on Windows, in disagreement with documentation

[Daniel Hrisca]

Daniel Hrisca <daniel.hrisca at gmail.com> added the comment:

I'm actually surprised that this problem gets so little interest. It's probably so obscure that most people don't even realize it.

Why isn't it implemented using winapi calls for the windows platform?

I took inspiration from this SO thread https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56502111/should-time-perf-counter-be-consistent-across-processes-in-python-on-windows
 
and came up with this function for 64 bit Python (a few more lines would be needed for error checking)

#include <windows.h>
static PyObject* perf_counter(PyObject* self, PyObject* args)
{
	PyObject* ret;

	QueryPerformanceFrequency(lpFrequency);
	QueryPerformanceCounter(lpPerformanceCount);
	
	ret = PyFloat_FromDouble(((double) lpPerformanceCount->QuadPart ) / lpFrequency->QuadPart);
	
	return ret;
}

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