execution timing and time(1)

[Badri Lokanathan]

In article <2888 at umcp-cs.UUCP> chris at umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>In article <1200016 at iuvax.UUCP> jec at iuvax.UUCP writes:
>>Could some one please fill me in on what could account for the
>>variations in timing?
>
A minor point:
In addition to what Chris Torek said I would like to point out that
time is built into csh and leads to output in a different format from
/bin/time. If you use csh then time does not do *exactly* what
/bin/time does.
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