[Python-ideas] add a global tick register to the interpreter?
Antoine Pitrou
solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Oct 23 20:53:11 CEST 2009
Sturla Molden <sturla at ...> writes:
>
> In Windows we get precise timings using QueryPerformanceCounter and
> QueryPerformanceFrequency. On Linux it would be uclock and
> UCLOCKS_PER_SEC. An C extension using the proposed API would have to
> call these functions itself. The proposed registers are thus not for
> timing, but for measuring how many times the interpreter has ticked and
> tocked.
Well, given I plan to propose a removal of the whole "ticking" scheme (see the
"newgil" branch in the sandbox if you are curious), I am personally not terribly
interested in giving access to the current counters :-)
However, a cross-platform API for accessing high-resolution timers could be nice.
Regards
Antoine.
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