Claudio Grondi wrote: > If it were so, than why can't the delta of time between the processors > be set to exact zero?
someone just wrote: >>>> This was a change from previous systems. On NT4 and Win2000, the >>>> operating actually rewrote the cycle counters on the second (and >>>> beyond) processors to align them to the first processor, so the delta >>>> was usually only a dozen or two cycles. XP does not appear to do >>>> that. I think that is a huge mistake, since it renders >>>> QueryPerformanceCounter non-monotonic. so if you really want to know, you may have to ask microsoft. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list