From: BrianG <briang000@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Ada.Execution_Time
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:32:45 -0500
Date: 2010-12-16T12:32:45-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iedig0$ai2$1@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x4GdnbBBlM_CkpfQRVn_vwA@giganews.com>
Peter C. Chapin wrote:
> On 2010-12-15 20:14, BrianG wrote:
>
>> Then the package is misnamed too - How is "Execution_Time" not a time?
>> Wouldn't tying it explicitly to Real_Time imply some relation to "real
>> time" (whether that makes sense or not)? Using Duration could help
>> that, since it's implementation-defined.
>
> To me "execution time" sounds like a measure of how long a program has
> run (in some sense). In other words it sounds like some kind of time
> interval. "The execution time of this process was 10.102 seconds."
"CPU_Time" makes it more clear - it's not the execution time of the
program, but the amount of CPU it has used. If there's time-sharing, it
can be less than the elapsed time used. Or if there's multiple cores,
it may be greater (although that may be unlikely as the task level).
>
> However, people often use "time" to refer to some sort of absolute
> clock. "What time is it? It is now 8:07am on 2010-12-16." The basic
> confusion is that the term "time" is extremely ambiguous in ordinary
> usage. Not only is it used both for time intervals and absolute time
> values, but there are several different kinds of time one might talk about.
>
> Peter
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2010-12-12 4:19 Ada.Execution_Time BrianG
2010-12-12 5:27 ` Ada.Execution_Time Jeffrey Carter
2010-12-12 16:56 ` Ada.Execution_Time Jeffrey Carter
2010-12-12 21:59 ` Ada.Execution_Time BrianG
2010-12-12 22:08 ` Ada.Execution_Time BrianG
2010-12-13 9:28 ` Ada.Execution_Time Georg Bauhaus
2010-12-13 22:25 ` Ada.Execution_Time Randy Brukardt
2010-12-13 22:42 ` Ada.Execution_Time J-P. Rosen
2010-12-14 3:31 ` Ada.Execution_Time Jeffrey Carter
2010-12-14 15:42 ` Ada.Execution_Time Robert A Duff
2010-12-14 16:17 ` Ada.Execution_Time Jeffrey Carter
2010-12-14 19:10 ` Ada.Execution_Time Warren
2010-12-14 20:36 ` Ada.Execution_Time Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-12-14 20:48 ` Ada.Execution_Time Jeffrey Carter
2010-12-14 8:17 ` Ada.Execution_Time Vinzent Hoefler
2010-12-14 15:51 ` Ada.Execution_Time Adam Beneschan
2010-12-14 15:53 ` Ada.Execution_Time Robert A Duff
2010-12-14 17:17 ` Ada.Execution_Time Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-12-14 17:45 ` Ada.Execution_Time Robert A Duff
2010-12-14 18:23 ` Ada.Execution_Time Adam Beneschan
2010-12-14 21:02 ` Ada.Execution_Time Randy Brukardt
2010-12-15 22:52 ` Ada.Execution_Time Keith Thompson
2010-12-15 23:14 ` Ada.Execution_Time Adam Beneschan
2010-12-17 0:44 ` Ada.Execution_Time Randy Brukardt
2010-12-17 17:54 ` Ada.Execution_Time Warren
2010-12-20 21:28 ` Ada.Execution_Time Keith Thompson
2010-12-21 3:23 ` Ada.Execution_Time Robert A Duff
2010-12-21 8:04 ` Ada.Execution_Time Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-12-21 17:19 ` Ada.Execution_Time Robert A Duff
2010-12-21 17:43 ` Ada.Execution_Time Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-12-14 19:43 ` Ada.Execution_Time anon
2010-12-14 20:09 ` Ada.Execution_Time Adam Beneschan
2010-12-15 0:16 ` Ada.Execution_Time BrianG
2010-12-15 19:17 ` Ada.Execution_Time jpwoodruff
2010-12-15 21:42 ` Ada.Execution_Time Pascal Obry
2010-12-16 3:54 ` Ada.Execution_Time jpwoodruff
2010-12-17 7:11 ` Ada.Execution_Time Stephen Leake
2010-12-15 21:40 ` Ada.Execution_Time Simon Wright
2010-12-15 23:40 ` Ada.Execution_Time BrianG
2010-12-15 22:05 ` Ada.Execution_Time Randy Brukardt
2010-12-16 1:14 ` Ada.Execution_Time BrianG
2010-12-16 5:46 ` Ada.Execution_Time Jeffrey Carter
2010-12-16 16:13 ` Ada.Execution_Time BrianG
2010-12-16 11:37 ` Ada.Execution_Time Simon Wright
2010-12-16 17:24 ` Ada.Execution_Time BrianG
2010-12-16 17:45 ` Ada.Execution_Time Adam Beneschan
2010-12-16 21:13 ` Ada.Execution_Time Jeffrey Carter
2010-12-17 0:35 ` New AdaIC site (was: Ada.Execution_Time) Randy Brukardt
2010-12-16 13:08 ` Ada.Execution_Time Peter C. Chapin
2010-12-16 17:32 ` BrianG [this message]
2010-12-16 18:17 ` Ada.Execution_Time Jeffrey Carter
2010-12-16 8:45 ` Ada.Execution_Time Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-12-16 16:49 ` Ada.Execution_Time BrianG
2010-12-16 17:52 ` Ada.Execution_Time Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-12-17 8:49 ` Ada.Execution_Time Niklas Holsti
2010-12-17 9:32 ` Ada.Execution_Time Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-12-17 11:50 ` Ada.Execution_Time Niklas Holsti
2010-12-17 13:10 ` Ada.Execution_Time Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-12-18 21:20 ` Ada.Execution_Time Niklas Holsti
2010-12-19 9:57 ` Ada.Execution_Time Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-12-25 11:31 ` Ada.Execution_Time Niklas Holsti
2010-12-26 10:25 ` Ada.Execution_Time Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-12-27 12:44 ` Ada.Execution_Time Niklas Holsti
2010-12-27 15:28 ` Ada.Execution_Time Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-12-27 20:11 ` Ada.Execution_Time Niklas Holsti
2010-12-27 21:34 ` Ada.Execution_Time Simon Wright
2010-12-28 10:01 ` Ada.Execution_Time Niklas Holsti
2010-12-28 14:17 ` Ada.Execution_Time Simon Wright
2010-12-27 21:53 ` Ada.Execution_Time Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-12-28 14:14 ` Ada.Execution_Time Simon Wright
2010-12-28 15:08 ` Ada.Execution_Time Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-12-28 16:18 ` Ada.Execution_Time Simon Wright
2010-12-28 16:34 ` Ada.Execution_Time Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-12-31 0:40 ` Ada.Execution_Time BrianG
2010-12-31 9:09 ` Ada.Execution_Time Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-12-28 14:46 ` Ada.Execution_Time Niklas Holsti
2010-12-28 15:42 ` Ada.Execution_Time Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-12-28 16:27 ` Ada.Execution_Time (see below)
2010-12-28 16:55 ` Ada.Execution_Time Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-12-28 19:41 ` Ada.Execution_Time (see below)
2010-12-28 20:03 ` Ada.Execution_Time Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-12-28 22:39 ` Ada.Execution_Time Simon Wright
2010-12-29 9:07 ` Ada.Execution_Time Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-12-27 17:24 ` Ada.Execution_Time Robert A Duff
2010-12-27 22:02 ` Ada.Execution_Time Randy Brukardt
2010-12-27 22:43 ` Ada.Execution_Time Robert A Duff
2010-12-27 22:11 ` Ada.Execution_Time Randy Brukardt
2010-12-29 12:48 ` Ada.Execution_Time Niklas Holsti
2010-12-29 14:30 ` Ada.Execution_Time Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-12-29 16:19 ` Ada.Execution_Time (see below)
2010-12-29 16:51 ` Ada.Execution_Time Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-12-29 19:57 ` Ada.Execution_Time (see below)
2010-12-29 21:20 ` Ada.Execution_Time Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-12-30 5:13 ` Ada.Execution_Time Randy Brukardt
2010-12-30 13:37 ` Ada.Execution_Time Niklas Holsti
2010-12-29 20:32 ` Ada.Execution_Time Niklas Holsti
2010-12-29 21:21 ` Ada.Execution_Time Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-12-30 13:34 ` Ada.Execution_Time Niklas Holsti
2010-12-30 19:23 ` Ada.Execution_Time Niklas Holsti
2010-12-30 5:06 ` Ada.Execution_Time Randy Brukardt
2010-12-30 23:49 ` Ada.Execution_Time Niklas Holsti
2010-12-31 23:34 ` Ada.Execution_Time Randy Brukardt
2011-01-01 13:52 ` Ada.Execution_Time Niklas Holsti
2011-01-01 14:42 ` Ada.Execution_Time Simon Wright
2011-01-01 16:01 ` Ada.Execution_Time Simon Wright
2011-01-01 19:18 ` Ada.Execution_Time Niklas Holsti
2011-01-03 21:27 ` Ada.Execution_Time Randy Brukardt
2011-01-06 22:55 ` Ada.Execution_Time Niklas Holsti
2011-01-07 6:25 ` Ada.Execution_Time Randy Brukardt
2011-01-01 15:54 ` Ada.Execution_Time Simon Wright
2011-01-03 21:33 ` Ada.Execution_Time Randy Brukardt
2011-01-05 15:55 ` Ada.Execution_Time Brad Moore
2010-12-17 8:59 ` Ada.Execution_Time anon
2010-12-19 3:07 ` Ada.Execution_Time BrianG
2010-12-19 4:01 ` Ada.Execution_Time Vinzent Hoefler
2010-12-19 11:00 ` Ada.Execution_Time Niklas Holsti
2010-12-21 0:37 ` Ada.Execution_Time Randy Brukardt
2010-12-21 1:20 ` Ada.Execution_Time Jeffrey Carter
2010-12-19 12:27 ` Ada.Execution_Time Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-12-21 0:32 ` Ada.Execution_Time Randy Brukardt
2010-12-19 22:54 ` Ada.Execution_Time anon
2010-12-20 3:14 ` Ada.Execution_Time BrianG
2010-12-22 14:30 ` Ada.Execution_Time anon
2010-12-22 20:09 ` Ada.Execution_Time BrianG
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