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by malklera 87 days ago
> Notice that in all cases time spent sleeping or otherwise waiting shouldn’t be counted, though you probably shouldn’t do that in your code in the first place.

I thought the time your CPU waits around doing nothing is something you want to measure.

If your algorithm has better "mathematical" scaling with big N but is worse in real world scenarios, it "failed".

Or maybe the application of this is another?