[Python-Dev] [RFC] PEP 418: Add monotonic time, performance counter and process time functions

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Mon Apr 16 12:38:41 CEST 2012


2012/4/16 Matt Joiner <anacrolix at gmail.com>:
> This is becoming the Manhattan Project of bike sheds.

FreeBSD FAQ contains an entry "Why should I care what color the
bikeshed is?" which mention  a "sleep(1) should take fractional second
arguments" saga in 1999.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/misc.html#BIKESHED-PAINTING

Bikeshedding is maybe a common issue with the discussion around time
function? :-)

Victor


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