On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 02:19:42PM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > But is it interesting to time the startup time of gnome-terminal? While > that's perhaps an interesting benchmark as well, it has little > correlation with questions like "how fast will my kernel compile > go when run in gnome-terminal"? But will cat end after all output has been displayed or before? (Due to pipe buffers.) > If we are measuring wall clock time, timing the cat command seems > to be pretty appropriate. > > If we are measuring CPU usage, then we need to find CPU usage from > the terminal *and* from the X server, so we already need to use a > tool like oprofile that can get a global view. I agree. Regards, Luciano Rocha -- Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.
