From 01546a88b8dfa5637ac0d29f7852f81032b31f27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Brandl Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 21:35:35 +0100 Subject: Closes #22749: remove outdated advice to use clock() for accurate timing. --- Doc/library/time.rst | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) 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 -- cgit v0.12