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Do they know one second is slow? (registerspill.thorstenball.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Computers can create and destroy entire worlds in one second. One second is multiple billions โ€“ billions! โ€“ of executed instructions. One second is an eternity for a computer.

Yet I sometimes wonder whether one second is the smallest unit of time most programmers think in. Do they know that you can run entire test suites in 1s and not just a single test? Do they know that one second is slow?

Seeing how slow modern software can be, on modern hardware, just makes me sad sometimes. I really feel this person's pain, including the slow creeping insanity of "how is nobody else noticing/bothered by this". ๐Ÿ˜“

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, there was a bit of discussion about that on Lobsters :)