[Python-Dev] an alternative to embedding policy in PEP 418

[Cameron Simpson]

On 02Apr2012 14:59, Glenn Linderman <v+python at g.nevcal.com> wrote:
| On 4/2/2012 2:40 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
| > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Glenn Linderman<v+python at g.nevcal.com>  wrote:
| >> >  One thing I don't like about the idea of fallback being buried under some
| >> >  API is that the efficiency of that API on each call must be less than the
| >> >  efficiency of directly calling an API to get a single clock's time.
| > No, that's a misunderstanding of the fallback mechanism. The fallback
| > happens when the time module is initialised, not on every call. Once
| > the appropriate clock has been selected during module initialisation,
| > it is invoked directly at call time.
| 
| I would hope that is how the fallback mechanism would be coded, but I'm 
| pretty sure I've seen other comments in this thread that implied 
| otherwise.  But please don't ask me to find them, this thread is huge.

The idea of falling back to different clocks on the fly on different
calls got a bit of a rejection I thought. A recipe for clock
inconsitency whatever the failings of the current clock.

Cheers,
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