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by lostdog 1319 days ago
What could they possibly be doing that takes 4 seconds? That's ~4,000,000,000 instructions on a typical embedded processor.

It's much more likely that the handshaking was implemented by an incompetent organization that doesn't care about quality.

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It is extremely odd to see so many people in this thread ignore that a handshake requires billions of instructions to be executed for some reason....
One of the grandparents of this comment thread explicitly ignored it; this is a discussion on frame buffering.