can real time in benchmark.rb be less than the other other ones?

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This is my benchmark.rb output. Is it not weird that real time is less than ther system and total time? or is it okay to have it? I am new to ruby, please forgive me if I sound stupid. Thanks!

user     system      total     real
1.050000   0.000000   1.050000 (0.503462)
1.533333   0.016667   1.550000 (0.735473)
1.500000   0.016667   1.516667 (0.711239)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/556405/what-do-real-user-and-sys-mean-in-the-output-of-time1 — Vasiliy Ermolovich, Apr 29 '11 at 16:09

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 02 '11 at 17:30

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My guess is that you ran this on a dual core machine, or at least a multiple core, and it ran two threads.

answered May 02 '11 at 17:30

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can real time in benchmark.rb be less than the other other ones?

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