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[-] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 23 points 1 year ago

Can someone explain this joke to me

"I'm writing a recursive method with threads to optimize the CPU usage in a 0.02%"

I understand everything apart from the "in a 0.02%". What does that mean? How can something be in a percentage?

[-] obosob@feddit.uk 39 points 1 year ago

It's a nonsensical statement to us programmers too.

[-] Sheik@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

I think they meant « by ».

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It's a double joke. For programmers, it's pretty useless unless your in high performance computing.

If you're on the nitty gritty OS or CPU itself, 0.02% optimization can mean significant improvememt of different things but because it is otherwise unitless, it is equally useless to the reader.

this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2023
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