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run time

(definition)

Definition: (1) The amount of time needed to execute an algorithm. (2) The time when a compiled program is executing, versus compile time.

See also big-O notation, polynomial time.

Author: PR


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Patrick Rodgers, "run time", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 17 December 2004. (accessed TODAY) Available from: http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/runtime.html