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[Steve Holden]

Thanks for the excellent clarification, /F.

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"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote in message
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> Steve Holden wrote
>
> > Well, after this little experiment on PythonWin 2.0/Win95 I'm no longer
> > sure what is going on:
> >
> > >>> for i in range(10):
> > ...  time.sleep(2.5)
> > ...  print time.time(), time.clock()
> > ...
> > 994956779.3 5.86667560636e-006
> > 994956781.88 2.55270956603
> > 994956784.41 5.0637313733
> > 994956786.94 7.58865720176
> > 994956789.41 10.1181121038
> > 994956791.99 12.6327050403
> > 994956794.46 15.1421897786
> > 994956796.99 17.6518547076
> > 994956799.51 20.1890552976
> > 994956802.04 22.7061055331
> >
> > Is my CPU usage really ~100% during those sleeps?
>
> from the Python library reference:
>
>     clock()
>
>     Return the current CPU time as a floating point
>     number expressed in seconds. The precision, and
>     in fact the very definition of the meaning of ''CPU
>     time'' , depends on that of the C function of the
>     same name
>
> ANSI C leaves the "era" and resolution open, and Microsoft
> has defined it as:
>
>     The clock function's era begins (with a value of 0)
>     when the C program starts to execute. It returns
>     times measured in 1/CLOCKS_PER_SEC (which
>     equals 1/1000 for Microsoft C).
>
> In recent version, I think "when the C program starts to
> execute" means "when the C program first calls the clock
> function", but you get the idea.
>
> Cheers /F
>
>