On 28.03.2012 06:45, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Victor Stinner > <[email protected]> wrote: >> If QueryPerformanceCounter() is monotonic, the API can be simplified to: >> >> * time.time() = system clock >> * time.monotonic() = monotonic clock >> * time.hires() = monotonic clock or fallback to system clock >> >> time.hires() definition is exactly what I was trying to implement with >> "time.steady(strict=True)" / "time.try_monotonic()". > > Please don't call the fallback version "hires" as it suggests it may > be higher resolution than time.time() and that's completely the wrong > idea.
It's also a completely ugly name, since it's quite hard to figure out what it is supposed to stand for in the first place. Georg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com