On Unix, return the current processor time as a floating point number expressed
in seconds. The precision, and in fact the very definition of the meaning of
- "processor time", depends on that of the C function of the same name, but in any
- case, this is the function to use for benchmarking Python or timing algorithms.
+ "processor time", depends on that of the C function of the same name.
On Windows, this function returns wall-clock seconds elapsed since the first
call to this function, as a floating point number, based on the Win32 function