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Questions
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   (1) Why does McScM need a long time until the first line of output
       appears (even if I start your examples "by hand" and not by
       the benchmark script) ?


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Answers
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   (1) Why does McScM need a long time until the first line of output
       appears (even if I start your examples "by hand" and not by
       the benchmark script) ?

       -> The used library for fifo machines does an internal sanity
          check of the input that utilizes the generation of the
          product automaton which can be extremely large (i.e., time
          and memory consuming);
          The times in the output of the tool exclude this preparatory
          step and only represent the time needed for verification
          (pure model checking and runtime of the tool excluding sanity
           checking).
          You can switch of this sanity check by the command-line param-
          eter '-no-scm-consistency-check' (but at least assure that
          you checked your handwritten examples once ;-).


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