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It blew my mind when I learned that even if you could hand wire conceptually perfect switches and wires, once your board was over a few inches, the laws of phys
by billti 3y ago
It blew my mind when I learned that even if you could hand wire conceptually perfect switches and wires, once your board was over a few inches, the laws of physics (e.g., the speed of light) would mean you still couldn’t beat a modern CPU for clock speed.
It really is insane the level at which current hardware works.
- josephg 3y agoYeah. Any time I wait for my computer to do something I think about this. In the 4 seconds discord took to open, my computer could do what, 5 billion operations per second per core? Even single threaded that’s 20 billion steps? And my internet connection could have delivered 600 million bytes of data - enough for a complete copy of windows xp. It’s wild.
- steve1977 3y agoIt’s wild and a sign how terribly inefficient most software is today