Re: realtime application

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From: Ronald J. Vaniwaarden
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 21:05

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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.

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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From: rvaniwaa@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Ronald J. Vaniwaarden)
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