[Python-Dev] time.clock() on windows

[Mark Hammond]

On 22/10/2009 8:52 AM, Scott Dial wrote:
> Curt Hagenlocher wrote:
>> But it makes more sense to
>> understand why someone chose to implement time.clock() on Windows the
>> way they did -- this seems very broken to me, and I think it should be
>> changed.
>
> Some SVN detective work takes this to all the way back to r7713
> (1997-04-02). The original implementation checked by Guido and
> attributed to Mark Hammond. So, we should ask Mark why he did that.

The thread seems to be at 
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/be32478a4b8e77b6/816d6228119a3474 
(although I do seem to recall more discussion of the patch which I 
currently can't find). I'd be very surprised if any applications rely on 
the fact that each process starts counting at zero, so if someone can 
come up with a high-res counter which avoids that artifact I'd expect it 
could be used.

Cheers,

Mark