[Python-Dev] Drop the new time.wallclock() function?

[Matt Joiner]

Windows also has this albeit course grained and also 32 bit. I don't think
ticks reflects the reason why using the timer is desirable.

monotonic_time seems reasonable, there's no reason to persist short names
when users can import it how they like.
On Mar 16, 2012 7:20 AM, "Steven D&apos;Aprano" <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

> Terry Reedy wrote:
>
>> On 3/15/2012 5:27 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Matt Joiner<anacrolix at gmail.com>
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> +1. I now prefer time.monotonic(), no flags.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Am I alone thinking that an adjective is an odd choice for a function
>>> name?
>>>
>>
>> I would normally agree, but in this case, it is a function of a module
>> whose short name names what the adjective is modifying. I expect that this
>> will normally be called with the module name.
>>
>>  I think monotonic_clock or monotonic_time would be a better option.
>>>
>>
>> time.monotonic_time seems redundant.
>>
>
> Agreed. Same applies to "steady_time", and "steady" on its own is weird.
> Steady what?
>
> While we're bike-shedding, I'll toss in another alternative. Early Apple
> Macintoshes had a system function that returned the time since last reboot
> measured in 1/60th of a second, called "the ticks".
>
> If I have understood correctly, the monotonic timer will have similar
> properties: guaranteed monotonic, as accurate as the hardware can provide,
> but not directly translatable to real (wall-clock) time. (Wall clocks
> sometimes go backwards.)
>
> The two functions are not quite identical: Mac "ticks" were 32-bit
> integers, not floating point numbers. But the use-cases seem to be the same.
>
> time.ticks() seems right as a name to me. It suggests a steady heartbeat
> ticking along, without making any suggestion that it returns "the time".
>
>
>
> --
> Steven
>
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