Light Speed Socket Connections

Erno Kuusela erno-news at erno.iki.fi
Thu Jul 12 13:59:26 EDT 2001


In article <3b4d6184.1698299906 at wa.news.verio.net>, bokr at accessone.com
(Bengt Richter) writes:

| For accurate timing, time.clock()
| is recommended, I believe:

[...]

the docs recommend it, but on unix time.time() is far better

time.clock() tries to measure "cpu time" instead of "real time"
there, which results in terrible resolution. time.time() maps
to gettimeofday(2).

  -- erno



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