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1 CPU cycle is not really comparable to 1 s. A thougt that you can think of in 1 second can be extremely complex. Nitpicking? neh dont think so.
by callesgg 10y ago
1 CPU cycle is not really comparable to 1 s.
A thougt that you can think of in 1 second can be extremely complex.
Nitpicking? neh dont think so.
- brobinson 10y agoI think the goal was to establish a base from which all the other comparisons could be reasonably drawn. Humans don't generally think in fractional seconds.
- callesgg 10y agoNo but a human thought does not represent a numeric operator, it represents a very very complex state. It would take megabytes probably even perhaps gigabytes to represent a thought on some level.
- teraflop 10y agoIt takes an awful lot of data to fully capture the instantaneous state of a superscalar processor, too. Instruction scheduling, register renaming, cache lookups, branch prediction, speculative execution, and so on.
- striking 10y agoWhat's your opinion on model train sets, or scale models of buildings?