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Re:Ruby is too slow for programming competitions by aghoreyshi on Sunday April 21, 2013 @02:27PM (#5585784)
What is sys time? The amount of time it's actually run on the processor?
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Re:Ruby is too slow for programming competitions by eatitraw on Sunday April 21, 2013 @02:34PM (#5585811)
No, it is the amount of time your program spent in system calls: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/556405/what-do-real-user-...
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Re:Ruby is too slow for programming competitions by jmah on Sunday April 21, 2013 @02:42PM (#5585845)
The amount of time spent in system calls (i.e. the kernel).
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