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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: 10 rules for benchmarking (was Re: Teaching new tricks to an old
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Date: 14 Mar 2005 15:41:40 -0500
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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