Usually the CPU time of a program doesn’t exceed the wall clock time (the running time) of the program. Explain the circumstances under which this can be false.

What will be an ideal response?


On a multiprocessor, if an application is multithreaded, morethan one processor can accumulate CPU time at the same time, so it is possible for the CPU time to exceed the running time of the program

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