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From: badri@ur-valhalla.UUCP (Badri Lokanathan)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: execution timing and time(1)
Message-ID: <765@ur-valhalla.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 10-Aug-86 14:28:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: ur-valha.765
Posted: Sun Aug 10 14:28:08 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 12-Aug-86 14:20:20 EDT
References: <1200016@iuvax.UUCP> <2888@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: badri@valhalla.UUCP (Badri Lokanathan)
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In article <2888@umcp-cs.UUCP> chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>In article <1200016@iuvax.UUCP> jec@iuvax.UUCP writes:
>>Could some one please fill me in on what could account for the
>>variations in timing?
>
A minor point:
In addition to what Chris Torek said I would like to point out that
time is built into csh and leads to output in a different format from
/bin/time. If you use csh then time does not do *exactly* what
/bin/time does.
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