[Nottingham] Time

[Joshua Lock]

On 30 Jan 2007, at 18:01, Peter Chang wrote:
> In time(1), user and system times are the times spent by the  
> process in user mode and kernel mode respectively. I/O will usually  
> be counted as system time.

Thanks Peter. That makes sense.

On 30 Jan 2007, at 18:03, Martin wrote:
> What are you benchmarking?
>
> Algorithms costing or compiler optimisations or?

The relative costs of different STL containers and algorithms. I'm  
thinking that having time on my side gives me an advantage over my  
Windows using brethren.

- J