In measuring a process, it's important to look at both total elapsed time and process efficiency.

在评价进程的过程之中，要同时查看总体逃逸时间以及进程效率。

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DASD is cheap, and the time on the wire might be only a small part of the total time in the process.

DASD是便宜的，并且线路上的时间可能仅是过程中总时间的一小部分。

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Much of the time, the size of XML really makes no difference — hard disks are cheap, and the time on the wire might be only a small part of the total time in the process.

很多时候，XML的大小实际上并没有多大影响—硬盘很便宜，而且文件传输用的时间也许只占整个处理时间的一小部分。

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Based on dependencies and job-time lengths, a critical path is found through the process that defines the minimum total time to completion.

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Repeatedly winding up the spring and dumping its energy into the battery (a process that takes about two minutes) can increase the total running time.

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Bill Clinton had devoted an enormous amount of time and political capital to the peace process, only to meet with near total failure, in Mr Bush's view, when the Palestinian uprising, or intifada, broke out a year ago.

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