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Well, one clock cycle is measured in picoseconds. That means, even if we assume 1 cycle is one nanosecond, that's 10 million CPU cycles you can do something wit
by Pannoniae 3y ago
Well, one clock cycle is measured in picoseconds. That means, even if we assume 1 cycle is one nanosecond, that's 10 million CPU cycles you can do something with.
That's a lot.
- jerf 3y agoYour scale is off. At the moment it is still better to think of clock cycles as nanoseconds; it's still large tenths of a nanosecond. 1 cycle per nanosecond is 1GHz, so a modern processor has 2-4 cycles per nanosecond, in which it can do a lot, but not anywhere near 10 million cycles.
- Pannoniae 3y agoMy scale wasn't off, but I agree, it was quite misleading. When I said measured in picoseconds, I was thinking about 300-500 picoseconds roughly. However, CPUs can also execute more than one instruction in a cycle so effectively, you can have more instructions than cycles.