I think there was a paper about that in the 90’s. If your program required more than X years of supercomputer time, you will get your answer faster by waiting n

I think there was a paper about that in the 90’s. If your program required more than X years of supercomputer time, you will get your answer faster by waiting n years to start executing. If I remember correctly it was X=5 and n=2. Moore’s law was magical