[vox-tech] benchmarking (again)

Gabriel G. Rosa grosa at ucdavis.edu
Fri Feb 17 14:09:02 PST 2006


On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 02:03:36PM -0800, Mark K. Kim wrote:
> As Jeff pointed out, Cygwin can be a bit of an oddball.  I'm not sure
> what happens if you run `time` on a non-Cygwin program like a JVM.
> Also, I'm not sure what JVM considers "system" and "user" time -- if the
> whole program gets executed by the JVM as a system driver then "system"
> time is what C++ would consider a "user" time.
> 

Doesn't the JVM stay pre-loaded under Windows? That would explain the
shorter execution time (no startup overhead).

-Gabe


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