they're absolutely inaccurate for the reason you mentioned, but they're also relatively inaccurate because not all of the program's execution is syscalls. regul

they're absolutely inaccurate for the reason you mentioned, but they're also relatively inaccurate because not all of the program's execution is syscalls. regular program code runs at the same speed (more or less), but syscalls are made much slower so appear to take more time than they really do.