[Pysdl-devel] time() vs. clock()

[David C. <D. C. <si...@te...>]

Peter Nicolai writes:
 > I think I have something useful to share, which gives
 > me a little lump in my throat...:)
 > 
 > on win98:
 > 
 > avg smallest difference between two calls to
 > time.time():   0.0550000071526  seconds.
 > avg smallest difference between two calls to
 > time.clock():   0.00199969828525  seconds.
 > 
 > Does time.clock() work on all platforms? if so 2ms
 > accuracy isn't too awful, is it?  I attached the
 > script, tell me if I'm missing something --P
 > 

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This is interesting. Results under Unix:

avg smallest difference between two calls to time():   8.32080841064e-06  seconds.
avg smallest difference between two calls to clock():   0.01  seconds.

To wit: opposite results in terms of precision.

The issue, of course, is whether or not it works on the Mac. Does
anyone on list have a Mac we could try this code out on?

Incidently, you're missing an 'import time' line at the top :)

David Clark
si...@te...
Preliminary pySDL Documentation:
http://www3.telus.net/futility/futility/docs/pysdl/index.html