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Created August 29, 2013 19:41
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Quick benchmark showing the difference between using datetime and time
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In [56]: %timeit datetime.datetime.utcnow()
1000000 loops, best of 3: 875 ns per loop
In [57]: %timeit time.time()
10000000 loops, best of 3: 110 ns per loop
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