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Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 04:28:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Michael S. Hornung" <foobar@u.washington.edu>
To: linux@u.washington.edu
Subject: output from 'time'
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I'm using the 'time' command to try and compare some scripts I wrote.  
The first appears to actually finish faster (in less elapsed time).  The
man page is useless.  Can someone describe what the return values are
trying to tell me?

[grogan][/home/phix/tmp/perlipc]% time ./t hosts
....[output here]...
0.170u 0.060s 0:04.50 5.1%      0+0k 0+0io 687pf+0w

[grogan][/home/phix/tmp/perlipc]% time ./x hosts
....[output here]...
0.150u 0.010s 0:12.53 1.2%      0+0k 0+0io 667pf+0w

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Michael Hornung		foobar@u.washington.edu

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