Re:Admiral Grace Hopper Explains the Nanosecond (1983) [video]
by jkinudsjknds on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @12:22PM
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I enjoyed listening to her, but I don't know if I understand her point here. There was something intuitive about why certain processes require a large number of nano seconds due to physics. But I have a tough time thinking of any process besides financial trading that can't spare a microsecond.
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Re:Admiral Grace Hopper Explains the Nanosecond (1983) [video]
by ncmncm on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @07:58PM
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Anything that you need to do a lot of, in a second, suffers for wasted microseconds.
If your input processing and font rendering pathways waste microseconds (and they do) it makes a delay in characters you type showing up on the screen, and a corresponding, measurable reduction in your editing throughput.
When our machines were a thousand times slower, characters showed up on the screen in substantially less time than they do today. The difference is mainly a result of cumulative wasted microseconds, in so many places that nobody can afford to gather them up.