PEP 418: Add link to Monoclock library and an old article on Windows clocks

Mention also another issue of QueryPerformanceCounter()
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Victor Stinner 2012-04-05 00:38:51 +02:00
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@ -411,6 +411,9 @@ Bugs:
each processor. The bug was fixed in Windows XP SP2.
* Issues with processor with variable frequency: the frequency is changed
depending on the workload to reduce memory consumption.
* Chromium don't use QueryPerformanceCounter() on Athlon X2 CPUs (model 15)
because "QueryPerformanceCounter is unreliable" (see base/time_win.cc in
Chromium source code)
.. _KB896256: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=896256
.. _KB274323: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=274323
@ -905,6 +908,9 @@ Libraries exposing monotonic clocks:
* `python-monotonic-time
<http://code.google.com/p/python-monotonic-time/>`_ (`github
<https://github.com/gavinbeatty/python-monotonic-time>`_)
* `Monoclock.nano_count()
<https://github.com/ludios/Monoclock>`_ uses clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC)
and returns a number of nanoseconds
* `monotonic_clock <https://github.com/ThomasHabets/monotonic_clock>`_
* `Perl: Time::HiRes <http://perldoc.perl.org/Time/HiRes.html>`_
exposes clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC)
@ -961,6 +967,8 @@ Time:
<http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/i-seconds/>`_: How the
IBM High Resolution Time Stamp Facility accurately measures itty
bits of time
* `Win32 Performance Measurement Options
<http://drdobbs.com/windows/184416651>`_ by Matthew Wilson, May 01, 2003
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