Bengt Richter wrote: > On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:33:07 -0400, Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Steve Horsley wrote: >> >>>I think the sleep times are quantised to the granularity of the system >>>clock, shich varies from os to os. From memory, windows 95 has a 55mS >>>timer, NT is less (19mS?), Linux and solaris 1mS. All this is from >> >>For the record, the correct value for NT/XP family is about 15.6 ms >>(possibly exactly 64 per second and thus 15.625ms, but offhand I don't >>recall, though I'm sure Google does). >> > > What "correct value" are you referring to? The clock chip interrupts, > clock chip resolution, or OS scheduling/dispatching?
The resolution of the call to time.time(), basically. > For NT4 at least, I don't know of anything near 15.6 ms ;-) Apparently my belief that XP was the same as NT is incorrect then. The value is definitely correct for XP (on my machine anyway ;-) ). -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
