well timed

adj : done or happening at the appropriate or proper time; "a

timely warning"; "with timely treatment the patient has

a good chance of recovery"; "a seasonable time for

discussion"; "the book's publication was well timed"

[syn: {timely}, {seasonable}, {well-timed(a)}, {well

timed(p)}]

wall time

(Or "wall clock time") 1. "Real world" time (what the clock on

the wall shows), as opposed to the {system clock}'s idea of

time.

2. The real running time of a program, as opposed to the

number of {tick}s required to execute it (on a {time-sharing}

system these always differ, as no one program gets all the

ticks, and on multiprocessor systems with good thread support

one may get more processor time than real time).

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