On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:47:38 EST, Jon Masters said: > I must be weird or something, but I often think about this and the sheer > number of clock cycles executing at any one time around the world. Have > you ever stopped to think how many copies of schedule() (or whatever) > are currently running somewhere in the world? It's just nuts :-) That's why we count single cycles in fast-path sections of code. :)
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