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From: CTips <ctips@bestweb.net>
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Subject: Re: 10 rules for benchmarking (was Re: Teaching new tricks to an
 old dog (C++ -->Ada))
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 20:45:57 -0500
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Robert A Duff wrote:
> CTips <ctips@bestweb.net> writes:
> 
> 
>>Gautier wrote:
>>
>>>CTips:
>>>
>>>
>>>>He's done it right:
>>>> - he's running them on a Linux machine, which is more accurate than
>>>>cygwin for measuring performance (and where sys/user really mean
>>>>something).
> 
> 
> Why is that?  When I use cygwin, the sys/user times indeed seem
> completely bogus.  Are these impossible to measure on windows?  If that
> were true, why wouldn't it always print 0 or something?  The cygwin
> 'time' command is obviously trying to measure *something* with these
> numbers.
> 
> - Bob
Probably eventually calls GetProcesTimes from the Windows kernel.