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I Waited 10 Billion Cycles and All I Got Was This Loading Screen
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preyneyv’s blog I Waited 10 Billion Cycles and All I Got Was This Loading Screen Modern hardware is unbelievably fast. The M1 Max that I’m writing this article on runs at 3.2GHz. That is 3.2 BILLION clock cycles per second. Yet, Microsoft Teams takes 3 seconds to open a link, and I refuse to believe it takes 9.6 BILLION clock cycles to…
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