On Sat, 2 Oct 1999 18:43:36 -0600, Mark Taylor wrote:

>
>> 
>> Also, the CPU/estimated  and  time/estimated  numbers are always identical.
>> I dont have any non-OS/2 system to try LAME on, is this normal/unusal? What
>> should these fields be reading (I assume they shouldn't always be the same)
>> 
>> thanks
>> paul
>> 
>
>one is wall clock time, from the times() system call, and the other is
>CPU time of LAME, from the clock() system call.  All systems seem to
>have clock(), but not everyone has times().  On systems which do not
>have times() (HAVETIMES not defined during compilation), LAME just
>uses clock() instead and the two values will be identical.  Or if 
>LAME is the only thing running, the wall clock and CPU time should
>be pretty close. 

Hmm, with or without the HAVETIMES defined they both show the time elapsed
since LAME started. OS/2 EMX has times() .. weird.. I will look into it
when I get a chance...



paul


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