Am 22.04.2010 20:01, schrieb Orchid XP v8:
>>> Question: What the HELL is the clock speed of GLaDOS?! o_O
>>
>> That's easy: At least 1 THz.
>
> At 1 THz, 1 picosecond would only be a single clock cycle. You would
> imagine that self-awareness would require billions of clock cycles.
>
> Isn't there a fundamental "plank time" or something?

There is indeed such a thing (not too surprisingly it's the time it 
takes for light to travel the planck length), being 5.39something * 
10^-44 s (or so the corresponding Wikipedia article claims).

Even a computer running at some billion THz would still be over 20 
orders of magnitude away from that limit.

OTOH, it might be interesting to hear that 1 ps after being turned on, 
at most 0.027 mm^3 of GLaDOS could actually be self-aware, due to 
maximum signal propagation speed...

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