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Sleep() at home (programming.dev)

submitted 10 months ago by JPDev to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I actually remember the teacher having us do this in high school. I tried it again a few years later and it didn't really work anymore.

[–] snaggen 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

On my first programming lesson, we were taught that 1 second sleep was for i = 1 to 1000 😀, computers was not that fast back then...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean maybe in an early interpreted language like BASIC… even the Intel 8086 could count to 1000 in a fraction of a second

[–] snaggen 5 points 10 months ago

This was in 1985, on a ABC80, a Swedish computer with a 3 MHz CPU. So, in theory it would be much faster, but I assume there were many performance losses (slow basic interpretor and thing like that) so that for loop got close enough to a second for us to use.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_80