> Notice that in all cases time spent sleeping or otherwise waiting shouldn’t be counted, though you probably shouldn’t do that in your code in the first place.

> Notice that in all cases time spent sleeping or otherwise waiting shouldn’t be counted, though you probably shouldn’t do that in your code in the first place. I thought the time your CPU waits around doing nothing is something you want to measure. If your algorithm has better "mathematical" scaling with big N but is worse in real world scenarios, it "failed". Or maybe the application of this is another?