[Python-Dev] PEP 564: Add new time functions with nanosecond resolution

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Oct 16 13:24:32 EDT 2017


On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 19:20:44 +0200
Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, now I'm confused. I misunderstood your previous message. I understood
> that you changed you mind and didn't want to add process_time_ns().
> 
> Can you elaborate why you consider that time.process_time_ns() is needed,
> but not the nanosecond flavor of os.times() nor resource.getrusage()? These
> functions use the same or similar clock, no?

I didn't say they weren't needed, I said that we could restrict
ourselves to the time module for the time being if it makes things
easier.

But if you want to tackle all of them at once, go for it! :-)

Regards

Antoine.


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