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0 pointsmpweiher5y ago0 comments

> harder to benchmark

And typically much harder to care about, as in: those applications are not stuck in algorithms that benefit from compiler optimisation.

They're waiting for the database. Or the user. Or on the graphics library.

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adrianN5y ago· 1 in thread

Typically those programs are waiting for data to arrive from RAM because they have terrible data locality and chase pointers to do everything.

dahfizz5y ago

It takes 15 to 20 nanoseconds to fetch something cold from ram. That's slow if you do it in a tight loop, but that's absolutely nothing in a gui application.

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