Re: [2.3.13] some bench on a 486

Marc Mutz (Marc@Mutz.com)
Fri, 13 Aug 1999 19:13:02 +0000

Luca Montecchiani wrote:
>
> Thomas Bierweiler wrote:
> >
> > And as you can see here, the sys time is 20% less then before,
> > so this IS a large improvement.
>
> Yes it's good, but the user pay a 3.2% tax over the
> global real time and I don't know why.
>
<snip>
That's within the error interval. Real time means start time - end time
(obviously) and that can vary between two runs of the same app with the
same data because of
- cached vs. non-cached data
- you starting another app
- you moving the mouse
- you looking at the process vs. you having a little beer in the
kitchen...

Marc

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Marc Mutz <Marc@Mutz.com>                    http://marc.mutz.com/
University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics


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