Knuth's Challenge: Analyze everything your computer does in one second

Post by grkvlt » Sun, Oct 02, 2016, 2:51 PM UTC

rbanffy wrote: post #4

EdwardCoffin wrote: post #2

I think perhaps some alterations would really be necessary to make this analysis tractable. He wrote this in 1989, so how many doublings in performance have we had since then? The duration should be adjusted accordingly, so analyze everything the computer does in say a thousandth of a second, or even less. Another thing is that he was surely envisioning a program written in C or the like - a straightforward translati…

Since Apple IIs were manufactured until 1993 or so, I guess I could use one for the challenge. It's perfectly doable.