ANN: a new utility for Python developers

[Skip Montanaro]

    Erno> In article <mailman.998259031.17203.python-list at python.org>, "Tim
    Erno> Peters" <tim.one at home.com> writes:

    Erno> | The Python profiler is written in Python, and uses Python's
    Erno> | time.clock()

    Erno> mouldn't it be better to use something with a little more
    Erno> resolution on non-win32 platforms, like gettimeofday() ?

The C library function clock(3) and the system call gettimeofday(2) measure
two quite different things.  From "man clock" on my Mandrake system:

    The clock() function returns an approximation of processor
    time used by the program.

>From "man gettimeofday":

       gettimeofday  and settimeofday can set the time as well as
       a timezone. 

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