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Aya Othman
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Can you help me to understand why does the output of time function variesvary every time while applying it on same file with same sort type?

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Aya Othman
Aya Othman
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Can you help me to understand why does the output of time function varies every time while applying it on same file with same sort type?

When I run for example (time ./sort1 random5000.txt) it gives me real, syst, and user time. But if I run the same command again it will gives me different time results! I can't understand why this scenario happens. Knowing that this difference doesn't follow certain pattern, sometimes time increased and other time it deceased.