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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2014-10-28 20:35:35 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2014-10-28 20:35:35 (GMT) |
| commit | 01546a88b8dfa5637ac0d29f7852f81032b31f27 (patch) | |
| tree | 4ab69fbb66309aa755d7e96d869037a46e282e0f | |
| parent | 75f7490843499812b3537fea31fc89e220e43a45 (diff) | |
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Closes #22749: remove outdated advice to use clock() for accurate timing.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/time.rst b/Doc/library/time.rst index 64b5e04..829488f 100644 --- a/Doc/library/time.rst +++ b/Doc/library/time.rst @@ -133,8 +133,7 @@ The module defines the following functions and data items: On Unix, return the current processor time as a floating point number expressed in seconds. The precision, and in fact the very definition of the meaning of - "processor time", depends on that of the C function of the same name, but in any - case, this is the function to use for benchmarking Python or timing algorithms. + "processor time", depends on that of the C function of the same name. On Windows, this function returns wall-clock seconds elapsed since the first call to this function, as a floating point number, based on the Win32 function |