I miss thinking hard

Re:I miss thinking hard by raw_anon_1111 on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @01:52PM (#46889977)

That’s not realistic with any processor that does branch prediction, cache hits vs cache misses etc

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Re:I miss thinking hard by skydhash on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @03:42PM (#46891417)

You can easily compute the worst cases. All the details are in the specs of the processor.

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Re:I miss thinking hard by raw_anon_1111 on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @04:16PM (#46891905)

Assuming also that you are not running on top of an operating system, running in a VM with “noisy neighbors”…

I haven’t counted cycles since programming assembly on a 65C02 where you cooks save a clock cycle by accessing memory in the first page of memory - two opcodes to do LDA $02 instead of LDA $0201

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Re:I miss thinking hard by skydhash on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @05:10PM (#46892555)

Then assumes the opposite. Build an RTOS and don’t virtualize your software on top of it.

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