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authorTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2006-05-25 21:50:17 (GMT)
committerTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2006-05-25 21:50:17 (GMT)
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Some Win64 pre-release in 2000 didn't support
QueryPerformanceCounter(), but we believe Win64 does support it now. So use in time.clock(). It would be peachy if someone with a Win64 box tried this ;-)
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@@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ Extension Modules
- Use Win32 API to implement os.{access,chdir,chmod,mkdir,remove,rename,rmdir,utime}.
As a result, these functions now raise WindowsError instead of OSError.
+- ``time.clock()`` on Win64 should use the high-performance Windows
+ ``QueryPerformanceCounter()`` now (as was already the case on 32-bit
+ Windows platforms).
+
- Calling Tk_Init twice is refused if the first call failed as that
may deadlock.