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  • This can be problematic however, because the CPU time will also not count things like waiting for I/O, or for a page fault (?). These impact the performance of the real system and need to be taken into account. Commented Jan 15, 2010 at 14:59
  • That's why I noted that this is mainly just for computation-only tasks. Commented Jan 15, 2010 at 15:10