On 2005-12-07, Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2. If your system returns figures after the decimal point, it
> probably has better resolution than one second (go figure).
> Depending on what system it is, your best bet to determine
> why is to check the documentation for your system (also go
> figure), since the details are not really handled by
> Python. Going by memory, Linux will generally be 1ms
> resolution (I might be off by 10 there...),
In my experience, time.time() on Linux has a resolution of
about 1us. The delta I get when I do
print time.time()-time.time()
is usually about 2-3us, but some of that is probably due to the
overhead involved.
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