Message 305088 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

On 26.10.2017 13:46, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:

It is very bad, that the function with such attractive name has different meaning on Windows and Unix. I'm sure that virtually all uses of clock() are broken because its behavior on other platform than used by the author of the code.

Not really, no. People who write cross-platform code are well aware of the differences of time.clock() and people who just write for one platform know how the libc function of the same function works on their platform.

Unix: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/clock.3.html Windows: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4e2ess30.aspx