Why does CPU processing time matter when compared to real wall clock time?

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Published on 2012-08-28T08:28:02Z Indexed on 2012/08/28 9:41 UTC
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I am running the command time 7zr a -mx=9 sample.7z sample.log to gauge how long it takes to compress a file larger than 1GB. The results I get are as follows.

real    10m40.156s
user    17m38.862s
sys     0m5.944s

I have a basic understanding of the difference but don't understand how this plays a role in the time in takes to compress the file. For example should I be looking at real or user + sys?

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