Speed sensation

[Eray Ozkural]

On Tuesday 15 April 2003 21:43, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> the problem is not actually the time it runs but the time it does not run,
> because the kernel has something else to do (search files, read data, mmap
> libraries, resolve symbols). gprof does not compute this, therefore its
> totally useless as debugging method for this case.

Hmm, this brings to my mind the possibility of running some of the startup 
tasks in parallel so that we can work around system blocks and utilize CPU 
better. Probably not too much to be gained but still if there is I/O, it 
could be possible to overlap I/O with CPU (at least in theory!)

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