On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Simon Cross <hodgestar+python...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Larry Hastings <la...@hastings.org> wrote: >> It's probably neutral. But I do have one question: can you foresee the >> scientific community moving to a finer resolution than nanoseconds in our >> lifetimes? > > I think we're already there. Even just in radio astronomy new arrays > like ALMA which operate a terahertz frequencies are looking at > picosecond or possibly femtosecond timing accuracy (ALMA operates at > ~1000 times higher frequency than MeerKAT so they need ~1000 times > more accurate timing). > > E.g. > http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jan/29/alma-radio-telescope-chile-astronomy
None of that bears any relation on the precision of the timers available in the OS through Python's time and os APIs. -- --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
