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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>wall time</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="wall-follower.html" title="wall follower"/><link rel="next" href="wall-wart.html" title="wall wart"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">wall time</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wall-follower.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wall-wart.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="wall-time"/><dt xmlns="" id="wall-time"><b>wall time</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> (also <span class="firstterm">wall clock time</span>) </p></dd><dd><p> 1. ‘Real world’ time (what the clock on the wall shows),
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as opposed to the system clock's idea of time. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The real running time of a program, as opposed to the number of
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<a href="../T/tick.html"><i class="glossterm">tick</i></a>s required to execute it (on a timesharing
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system these always differ, as no one program gets all the ticks, and on
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multiprocessor systems with good thread support one may get more processor
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