Considerations for a possible Windows implementation

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Useful discussions:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/977883

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/172338

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff650674.aspx

http://www.christian-etter.de/?tag=queryperformancefrequency

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/977989 even Guido weighs in.

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For informational purposes, this is a dev snapshot of python's implementation: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/0437c19cdad0/Modules/timemodule.c#l100 Any implementation needs to be clean-room.