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by socket0 4066 days ago
As these measurements and observations are done inside the system, they're completely unreliable. Every time the computer clock ticks, a second goes by. It doesn't matter how fast it's ticking to an observer watching the screen, for code on the inside a tick means a second. The outside observer would notice the processor struggle to render all those details, slowing everything down to a crawl, but inside the code every tick will still signal a second.