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Computer latency: 1977-2017
I've had this nagging feeling that the computers I use today feel slower than the computers I used as a kid. As a rule, I don’t trust this kind of feeling because human perception has been shown to be unreliable in empirical studies, so I carried around a high-speed camera and measured the response latency of devices…
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Hardware & ElectronicsSystems & Performance2017
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 24, 2017 | Computer latency: 1977-2017 by kens | 588 | 161 |
| Dec 3, 2020 | Computer input latency from 1977-2017 (2017) by thesephist | 454 | 259 |
| Nov 20, 2022 | Computer Latency: 1977-2017 by 2pEXgD0fZ5cF | 244 | 101 |
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