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- From: rvaniwaa@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Ronald J. Vaniwaarden)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: Re: realtime application
- Message-ID: <3705@copper.Denver.Colorado.EDU>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 21:05:18 GMT
- References: <1992Sep2.064726.6351@nuscc.nus.sg> <Btyt27.JqD@world.std.com>
- Organization: University of Colorado at Denver
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- In article <Btyt27.JqD@world.std.com> fred@world.std.com (Fred A Putnam) writes:
- >...
- >time at all because they are being time-sliced with each other and with the
- >rest of OS/2. The timer ticks are virtualized, and do not track in real time.
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- I have often wondered about this idea. Does this mean that if you are
- running a program for which you wish to time the length of execution, that you
- will get the actual processor time rather than the real time? I know in
- Windows, you end up with the real time rather than processor time.
-
- --Ron
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