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...
here's a silly little script that measures the difference between two distinct return values, and reports the maximum frequency it has seen this far: import time def test(func): mm = 0 t0 = func() while 1: t1 = func() if t0 != t1: m = max(1 / (t1 - t0), mm) if m != mm: print m mm = m t0 = t1 test(time.time) # test(time.clock) 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. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list