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Do they know one second is slow? (registerspill.thorstenball.com)
submitted 1 year ago by invicticide to c/programming
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Computers can create and destroy entire worlds in one second. One second is multiple billions โ€“ billions! โ€“ of executed instructions. One second is an eternity for a computer.

Yet I sometimes wonder whether one second is the smallest unit of time most programmers think in. Do they know that you can run entire test suites in 1s and not just a single test? Do they know that one second is slow?

Seeing how slow modern software can be, on modern hardware, just makes me sad sometimes. I really feel this person's pain, including the slow creeping insanity of "how is nobody else noticing/bothered by this". ๐Ÿ˜“

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[โ€“] qwertyasdef 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a Substack thing, not added by the author

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sure but if they chose a better publishing platform that time wasting overlay wouldn't be there.

Maybe if the author chose better tools, they wouldn't have to wait around so much? I don't have to wait 1 second for a unit test to run for example - and I don't have particularly fast hardware..

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe they didn't have time to see how the platform performed for the reader?

[โ€“] snowe 2 points 1 year ago

They only waited half a second before signing up

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

The author chose to host on a platform that does that. So it is their fault