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Questions - cpu-time

Problem about cpu time and wall time in jupyternotebook

As a physics student, I have a questions I would like to ask you about program runtime. I'm doing a small project about algorithm optimization, my toy code is written on jupyternotebook, but when I us...
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clearlove

python

jupyter-notebook

cpu-time

wall-time

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First, what is Wall time : it's the total time needed to run the cell. Secondly, the CPU time is the time spend by the CPU, counting the different cores. For example, if I have a cell that require a w...
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Maxime Lavaud

Does context switching usually happen between calling a function, and executing it?

So I have been working on the source code of a complex application (written by hundreds of programmers) for a while now. And among other things, I have created some time checking functions, along with...
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Physician

windows

operating-system

function-call

context-switch

cpu-time

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Answers: 1

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QuestionA. Could this behavior be due to thread, or process switching by the OS? Yes. Thread switches can happen at any time (e.g. when a device sends an IRQ that causes a different higher priority ...
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