[Python-Dev] Use QueryPerformanceCounter() for time.monotonic() and/or time.highres()? (original) (raw)

Lukas Lueg lukas.lueg at googlemail.com
Mon Apr 2 17:57:58 CEST 2012


At least on some versions of Windows (e.g. XP) the QueryPerformanceCounter()-API is more or less only a stub around a call to RDTSC which in turn varies in frequency on (at least) Intel Pentium 4, Pentium M and Xeon processors (bound to the current clock frequencies).



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