"Dick Moores" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
code I time. What's an example of code that would have System be
greater than zero? And what's the distinction between User and
System? (I'm using Win XP, if that's relevant.)
It may be that XP doesn't report System time.
Well, here's one that reads in the text of Dickens' _Little Dorrit_
and returns the word count:
IPython CPU timings (estimated):
Total runs performed: 10
Times : Total Per run
User : 5.94446752311 s, 0.594446752311 s.
System: 0.0 s, 0.0 s.
I would definitely have expected some system time there.
This one is a Gui that has an Exit button. I called it and then hit
the button:
IPython CPU timings (estimated):
User : 10.5294301371 s.
System: 0.0 s.
That suggests that it is counting elapsed time as user time
in which case I'm not sure how it counts system time.
It may be an XP issue.
Anyone got different results under Linux/MacOS?
Alan G.
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