Message 403544 - Python tracker

Message403544

Author	vstinner
Recipients	Livius, akira, python-dev, shankarunni, vstinner, yselivanov
Date	2021-10-09.17:06:14
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> it is time to use nicely GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime() in time.time() See bpo-19007 for that. > it is time to (...) time.sleep() as absolute sleeping because it is available since Windows 8. In Python 3.11, time.sleep() is now always implemented with a waitable timer. I chose to use a relative timeout since it's simpler to implement. Is there any benefit of calling SetWaitableTimer() with an absolute timeout, compared to calling it with a relative timeout?

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> it is time to use nicely GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime() in time.time()

See bpo-19007 for that.

> it is time to (...) time.sleep() as absolute sleeping because it is available since Windows 8.

In Python 3.11, time.sleep() is now always implemented with a waitable timer. I chose to use a relative timeout since it's simpler to implement. Is there any benefit of calling SetWaitableTimer() with an absolute timeout, compared to calling it with a relative timeout?

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