Author: Ernst A. Heinz
Date: 18:28:29 01/25/00
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On January 25, 2000 at 20:59:47, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >With all due respect to Ernst and Dann, I think they're wrong. > >Context switches will hurt your program, but not very much. > >If you use clock() in Linux to time your program, you will [almost] always get >exactly the same numbers, regardless of what else the computer is doing. > >I think NT is not designed to keep track of how much time each process uses, so >it would be impossible for an NT clock() function to work correctly. I don't >know what it returns, but I'm pretty sure that it isn't the elapsed time for >the process. > >-Tom Tom, I am no NT guru but I cannot believe your suspicion. This would mean that NT inherently breaks the ANSI C standard. =Ernst=
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