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by kragen 688 days ago
your phone is 5–10 billion instructions per second, a thousand times faster. it's probably a quad-core in-order arm running at 1–2 gigahertz, not 1–2 terahertz
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Instructions and hertz have not been equivalent for almost a quarter of a century now, though.
not equivalent, but close enough in this case; even my laptop only manages less than 2 ipc per core, and the error in your earlier comment is a factor of 1000