Re: Forking Benchmarks?

If the forked processes don't end simultaneously, won't the remaining processes get unnatural speed boosts, increasing divergence in the results?

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Re^2: Forking Benchmarks? by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Sep 04, 2004 at 18:54 UTC
Only in wallclock time, not in terms of user/system CPU time. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re^2: Forking Benchmarks? by simonm (Vicar) on Sep 04, 2004 at 17:08 UTC
If the forked processes don't end simultaneously, won't the remaining processes get unnatural speed boosts, increasing divergence in the results? As noted above, the processes are run serially so do not compete for resources. I'll update the documentation to make this clear.	[reply]