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I enjoyed listening to her, but I don't know if I understand her point here. There was something intuitive about why certain processes require a large number of
by jkinudsjknds 6y ago
I enjoyed listening to her, but I don't know if I understand her point here. There was something intuitive about why certain processes require a large number of nano seconds due to physics. But I have a tough time thinking of any process besides financial trading that can't spare a microsecond.
- metiscus 6y agoSafety critical hard-realtime systems come to mind as an example.
- ncmncm 6y agoAnything that you need to do a lot of, in a second, suffers for wasted microseconds. If your input processing and font rendering pathways waste microseconds (and they do) it makes a delay in characters you type showing up on the screen, and a corresponding, measurable reduction in your editing throughput. When our machines were a thousand times slower, characters showed up on the screen in substantially less time than they do today. The difference is mainly a result of cumulative wasted microseconds, in so many places that nobody can afford to gather them up.
- jkinudsjknds 6y agohmm... idk. This feels difficult to believe. I don't think my editing speed would suffer if you threw 100 additional microseconds of delay into font rendering. I feel any meaningful loss would need to be measured in milliseconds or longer. Typing tests don't really help here because you don't read what you type if you're competent. I don't know how I could test...