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At the speed of light, photons travel about 1 foot per nanosecond. In other words, a modern 2 GHz processor would have time to execute at least one instruction
by realo 3y ago
At the speed of light, photons travel about 1 foot per nanosecond.
In other words, a modern 2 GHz processor would have time to execute at least one instruction between the time photons leave the screen, and the moment they reach your retina. Probably more than one, with multicore pipelined processors.
And yet today we wait and wait and wait for Windows to open a simple program.
Indeed... what happened?
- masswerk 3y agoLet's assume, 10 milliseconds = 1 CPU year. (If dogs can have their own years, why not CPUs, as well?) So, there you sit, waiting hundreds and hundreds of years…
- okwhateverdude 3y agoI already struggle with waiting for the rube goldberg-esque build-deploy-to-dev loop at my current gig. Thanks for the additional disgust.
- masswerk 3y agoI hear, the British Heath Robinson version (by Tommy Flowers) was quite fast… ;-)
- atomlib 3y ago> At the speed of light, photons travel about 1 foot per nanosecond. Americans have this disgusting way of embedding their sexual fetish into even the physical constants.