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<985915eee6984740ae93f8495c624c6c2319af4...@jscpcwexmaa1.bsg.ad.adp.com>,
on 07/15/2013
at 11:01 AM, "Farley, Peter x23353" <[email protected]>
said:
>I remember when I first was disabused of the quaint notion that the
>CPU performance of a batch z/OS application could be measured in a
>deterministic manner,
There's deterministic and there's usefully deterministic. Back when
IBM was still publishing instruction timings, there was a progression
to increasingly complex timing formulae. There was also the issue that
the time ranking of two code sequences would vary by model.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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