python source benchmark

[Kragen Sitaker]

In article <8rcdfv$2be$1 at ites.inria.fr>,
Cedric Adjih  <adjih at crepuscule.com> wrote:
>  I usually use the /bin/time command, time.time() (on a lightly
>loaded machine), or the profile module of Python for computing
>the time spent in a program (as another person indicated here).

The difference is that time.time() tells you how long it's been since
1969, and changes in it indicate how many wall-clock seconds have gone
by, while time.clock() tells you how much CPU time your process has
used.  So if your process spends most of its time waiting on external
events to happen, time.clock() will advance very slowly.
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