Comment by realo
3 years ago
At the speed of light, photons travel about 1 foot per nanosecond.
In other words, a modern 2 GHz processor would have time to execute at least one instruction between the time photons leave the screen, and the moment they reach your retina. Probably more than one, with multicore pipelined processors.
And yet today we wait and wait and wait for Windows to open a simple program.
Indeed... what happened?
> At the speed of light, photons travel about 1 foot per nanosecond.
Americans have this disgusting way of embedding their sexual fetish into even the physical constants.
Let's assume, 10 milliseconds = 1 CPU year. (If dogs can have their own years, why not CPUs, as well?) So, there you sit, waiting hundreds and hundreds of years…
I already struggle with waiting for the rube goldberg-esque build-deploy-to-dev loop at my current gig. Thanks for the additional disgust.
I hear, the British Heath Robinson version (by Tommy Flowers) was quite fast… ;-)