hey mike, thanks for your reply,
the reason i ask is because i'm getting quite different number for
consecutive runs between the same program - a difference of 3million
ruby_cycles. any idea of the top of your head why that might be the case?
thanks
sid
>> would the following ruby_stat results be accurate as well given that no
>> other programs are running on the machine?
>>
>> Profiler Stats
>> --------------
>> Elapsed_time_in_seconds: 1172
>> Elapsed_time_in_minutes: 19.5333
>> Elapsed_time_in_hours: 0.325556
>> Elapsed_time_in_days: 0.0135648
>>
>
>
> This is the simulation time of the host and not the target. In other
> words, this is _not_ the execution time of the simulated machine, but only
> how long it took to simulate.
>
> Although under tightly controlled circumstances, it may give reasonably
> accurate relative speedup, I highly recommend that you do *not* use this
> as a metric to judge performance differences.
>
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