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Re:Ask HN: What is the current driver of tech layoffs? by meheleventyone on Friday January 12, 2024 @03:24PM (#38973479)
On [1] aren’t you off by several orders of magnitude, 1MHz is 1,000,000 Hz. You’re correct for 60Hz but then use that value for MHz which is quite a lot more clocks per second.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the current driver of tech layoffs? by dijit on Friday January 12, 2024 @03:30PM (#38973559)
ah, quite right, none-the-less, missing a clock or a cacheline is incredibly consequential meaning optimisations turn out to be pretty... high risk.
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