"Dustan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> > The task manager says "CPU Usage: 100%" when the program is > running, and only when the program is running. > > Efficiency is a measure of 2 things: CPU usage and time. If you > measure just time, you're not necessarily getting the efficiency. > A lot of people, when they say 'uses a lot of CPU' are leaving off 'time'. I.e., CPU usage is pretty much talked about in terms of cycles, which is roughly utilization*time. Profiling tools often report both clock time and cpu time. Cpu time is a rough analog for cycles, clock time is self explanatory. max -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
