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		hinkley on March 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to burn the most money with a single click in ... You can run an awful lot of if statements in a microsecond these days.

Terretta on March 29, 2020 [–]

At scale, every microsecond matters.

But it's less the CPU time, and more the complexity.

hinkley on March 29, 2020 | [–]

That depends entirely on if the microsecond is in the embarrassingly parallel part of the workload or in the sequential part.

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