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Comment by klysm

3 years ago

You don’t have to solve the halting problem to have consistent latency - you are conflating distinct concepts. The fact that a computer can’t check if an arbitrary program will eventually halt does not preclude the existence of programs that halt with exactly the same number of instructions every single time.

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