On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Sümer Cip <sum...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there a reason behind the fact that the Python profilers work with Wall > time by default? There are OS-dependent ways to get the CPU time of a > thread, and giving that choice to the user _somehow_ ( to use wall vs cpu > time) might be a good feature?
The original reason was that the Unix wall clock was more accurate than its CPU clock. If that's changed we should probably (perhaps in a platform-dependent way) change the default to the most accurate clock available. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
