Christian Heimes added the comment: Guys, please don't waste too much time on this issue! The tracker still has more than 1,700 open issues for to debate on. While I enjoy the fact, that you three are enthusiastic, I strongly feel the urge to re-route your men power. This bug isn't important enough to waste your precious time on it.
My opinion as junior core developer is: sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK) is the winner and it should be used instead of HZ when available. A default value should not be used because it will lead to wrong data. Wrong results are worse than no results. Since calls to sysconf seem to cost several CPU cycles "clk_tck" should be cached somehow. I prefer a local static variable in the function but a static var on file level is fine, too. The compilation of Python must not fail. When neither HZ nor sysconf is available but HAVE_TIMES is defined then the function must not be included. Either you skip the function plus undef HAVE_TIMES or you add some code to configure.in that does it earlier. The C89 standard doesn't define #warn so that not an option, too. But configure is allowed fail for a broken system. Christian _____________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1040026> _____________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
