Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
>
> I wonder, why is struct tms prefered in apps/speed.c? The reason I
> ask is that it doesn't give accurate time, especially hardware
> accelerators (see the BRANCH_engine branch) are used (user time
> becomes *really* short then :-)). What exactly do we want to measure
> here, elapsed time or used time (again, in the hardware case, this is
> completely irrelevant)?
The point about using the user time is that it works when the machine is
loaded. I agree about hardware accelerators - my thought when testing
the Atalla is that we should provide two figures, a real-time and a
user-time one, and the reader of the figures can decide which to use.
Cheers,
Ben.
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