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How to calculate how much of the CPU is used?
Say we have an interrupt that is generated once each time that 1024 bytes of network traffic arrives. Each interrupt takes 3.5 microseconds to process and the network speed is 100Mb.We want the ...
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When it is worth it to spend RAM for computational speed? [closed]
I am developing data analytics algorithms that are supposed to process large amounts of data.
Thus I am aiming to develop my mathematics already in such a way that it is possible to distribute the ...
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How does sleeping a thread work?
When you sleep a thread, what is actually going on?
I see that sleeping a thread "pauses the current thread for a given period of time". But just how does it work?
According to How Thread.sleep() ...
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Can we still consider that Moore's law still holds true regarding the consequence on CPU speed? [closed]
Moore's law is an empirical law and in simple terms states that the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years.
One of the consequences of Moore's law is that ...
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How do lines of code get executed by the CPU?
I'm trying to really understand how exactly a high-level language is converted into machine code and then executed by the cpu.
I understand that the code is compiled into machine code, which is the ...
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