Picosecond
Oct 17

Picosecond

Picosecond : A picosecond is pretty fast – one-trillionth of a second.  As a point of reference:

330 picoseconds (approximately) – the time it takes a common 3.0 GHz computer CPU to add two integers

So, your addition operation requires one-third of one-billionth of one second.  If you had optimized correctly, you wouldn’t have incurred this penalty, you hack.

by Deane   October 17, 2009 11:01 PM    |   Follow Gadgetopia on Twitter

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by Sourav Chakraborty,   March 5, 2011 8:11 AM  

After some basic optimization, the developer hours (development+bug fixes due to incorrect/obscure optimizations) become more costly than those picoseconds...

by billig,   November 8, 2011 7:34 PM  

Hate to be the fun hater here, but Google I'm pretty sure already did it. But I agree, this is pretty dang sweet! I remember when I first saw it I had one of those..."I didn't even know I wanted that, but now I do!" kind of moments.

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