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By 2005, microprocessors could execute a singular instruction in 1 nanosecond. |
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Indeed, a common computer instruction is 'nanosleep' meaning suspend execution for a length of time given in nanoseconds (for example, http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man2/nanosleep.2.html#//apple_ref/doc/man/2/nanosleep ) |
Indeed, a common computer instruction is 'nanosleep' meaning suspend execution for a length of time given in nanoseconds (for example, [http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man2/nanosleep.2.html#//apple_ref/doc/man/2/nanosleep the Apple Mac OS X manual page for function nanosleep]) |
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Revision as of 22:50, 18 June 2008
Template:Associations/Orders of magnitude (time) A nanosecond (ns) is one billionth of a second. See also times of other orders of magnitude.
To help compare orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 10−9 seconds and 10−8 seconds (1 nanosecond and 10 nanoseconds).
- shorter times
- 1.0 nanoseconds (1.0 ns) – cycle time for frequency 1 GHz, radio wavelength 0.3 m
- 1.02 nanoseconds (approximately) – time taken for light to travel 1 foot.
- 3.33564095 nanoseconds (approximately) – time taken for light to travel 1 metre
- longer times
By 2005, microprocessors could execute a singular instruction in 1 nanosecond.
Indeed, a common computer instruction is 'nanosleep' meaning suspend execution for a length of time given in nanoseconds (for example, the Apple Mac OS X manual page for function nanosleep)