[Python-Dev] PEP 418: Add monotonic clock (original) (raw)

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Thu Mar 29 14:11:13 CEST 2012

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 23:40, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:

Does this primarily give a high resolution clock, or primarily a monotonic clock? That's not clear from either the name, or the PEP. I expect a better resolution from time.monotonic() than time.time().

Sure. And for me that means that time.hires() would give a high resolution version of time.time(). Ie, not monotonic, but wall clock. The question then is why time.time() doesn't give that resolution from the start.

It seems to me we need three functions: One to get the wall clock, one to get a monotonic clock, and one that falls back if no monotonic clock is available. Both time.time() and time.monotonic() should give the highest resolution possible. As such, time.hires() seems pointless.

//Lennart

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