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wall time
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. (also wall clock time ) 1. Real world time (what the clock on the wall
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shows), as opposed to the system clock's idea of time. 2. The real running
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time of a program, as opposed to the number of tick s required to execute it
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(on a timesharing system these always differ, as no one program gets all the
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ticks, and on multiprocessor systems with good thread support one may get
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more processor time than real time).
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