Calculating Elapsed Time

[Peter Hansen]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Peter Hansen wrote:
>>Going by memory, Linux will generally be 1ms resolution (I might be
>>off by 10 there...), while Windows XP has about 64 ticks per second,
>>so .015625 resolution...
> 
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> if I run this on the Windows 2K box I'm sitting at right now, it settles
> at 100 for time.time, and 1789772 for time.clock.  on linux, I get 100
> for time.clock instead, and 262144 for time.time.

For the record, the WinXP box I'm on is also 100 for time.time.  Which 
is quite odd, as I have a distinct memory of us having done the above 
type of measurement before and having had it come out at 64.  Colour me 
puzzled.

-Peter