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by Stuart Langridge.
Original Post: Optimum slack time
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Some quality chaps at the University of Arizona put together a report calculating how long you should slack for.
The Effects of Moore���s Law and Slacking on Large Computations (beware PDF)
Essentially, the idea here is that if you’re running a long computation, you might be better to sit on your hands for a bit and wait [...]
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