Here are three variants of the word "run time" in computer science. It's easy to mix them up, but your writing will be clearer if you do not.
- run-time: adjective ("the run-time performance")
- run time: noun -- a moment in time ("occurs at run time"), or an amount of time ("the run time is 8 hours")
- runtime: noun -- a program that runs/supports another program ("the runtime handles memory allocation"); a synonym for "runtime system"
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Too true, and I have sometimes despaired of my ability to convince my coauthors. But what prompted this now?
Because Martin Kellogg sent me email saying, "For the nth time, I've sent the following text to a student this morning: ... I got the text from you, originally. If you wrote up a blog post with this content, then I could link to that instead."
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