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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:02:14PM -0700, Johan Hake wrote:
> On Monday August 30 2010 11:53:54 Anders Logg wrote:
> > Is timing broken? It seems to be for me.
> >
> > Can anyone try the following:
> >
> > python -c "from dolfin import *; import time; tic(); time.sleep(1); print
> > toc()"
> >
> > It should print out something like 1.0, but I get 0.0.
>
> I get 0.0.
>
> > std::clock() is giving very strange values.
>
> Do you suggest that it is broken in std::clock and not in our wrapped version?

Yes, since we didn't change anything. (At least I don't remember
changing anything.)

When I print the values I get from std::clock(), I get values like

66400000

The precision seems to be very low.

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Anders