Some Win64 pre-release in 2000 didn't support
QueryPerformanceCounter(), but we believe Win64 does
support it now. So use in time.clock().
It would be peachy if someone with a Win64 box tried
this ;-)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 625dd74..be5e4ea 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -64,6 +64,10 @@
- Use Win32 API to implement os.{access,chdir,chmod,mkdir,remove,rename,rmdir,utime}.
As a result, these functions now raise WindowsError instead of OSError.
+- ``time.clock()`` on Win64 should use the high-performance Windows
+ ``QueryPerformanceCounter()`` now (as was already the case on 32-bit
+ Windows platforms).
+
- Calling Tk_Init twice is refused if the first call failed as that
may deadlock.