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Another way (which happens to be correct) to say tenth of a second is 100 000 000 (one hundred million) nanoseconds. You were off by a factor of 1000!
by xmddmx 3mo ago
Another way (which happens to be correct) to say tenth of a second is 100 000 000 (one hundred million) nanoseconds. You were off by a factor of 1000!
- itopaloglu83 3mo agoYeah, I skipped microseconds entirely.
- jiggawatts 3mo agoAlso, at a typical turbo speed of 5 GHz you get half a billion clock cycles and multiple instructions can be retired per clock for about one or two billion total in those 100ms. That’s about 1,000 instructions per pixel of the Start Menu!