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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada.Execution_Time
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Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> writes:

> Randy's last post in this thread, in which he agrees with Dmitry, has
> the same effect on me. I hope that further discussion with Randy will
> converge to something.
>
> Did your earlier understanding resemble Dmitry's, or mine? Or neither?

Yours, I think.

It seems strange to have CPU_Time bearing only a tenuous relationship
to what we might normally call "time", and then to have the difference
between two CPU_Times turn out to be a Time_Span!