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		aghoreyshi on April 21, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ruby is too slow for programming competitions What is sys time? The amount of time it's actually run on the processor?

eatitraw on April 21, 2013 | [–]

No, it is the amount of time your program spent in system calls: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/556405/what-do-real-user-...

jmah on April 21, 2013 | [–]

The amount of time spent in system calls (i.e. the kernel).

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