GetTickCount vs. clock for msec resolution
Erno Kuusela
erno-news at erno.iki.fi
Sun Apr 22 09:44:16 EDT 2001
In article <3ADFCB0C.6040706 at ActiveState.com>, Mark Hammond
<MarkH at ActiveState.com> writes:
| I believe that in general, if better timers for a platform become known
| they will be used in time.clock() so the profiler sees better
| resolution. Therefore this is probably the safest function to use.
at least on linux, clock() has very poor (timer interrupt, 100hz on x86)
resolution and time.time() has ~1 microsecond resolution.
-- erno
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