Why can a computer take minutes to run a couple lines of code, yet can run complex things like games so quickly?
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The number of lines of code a computer is told to work on are in now way in any sort of relation to the amount of time it takes to work through them.
It is a lot like giving instructions to a human being.
Simple orders can nonetheless involve a lot of work for the person told to execute them.
Telling someone to “dig a hole”, digging a hole is harder though. and ordering someone to “dig a hundred holes” is only an order a slight bit longer and more complex but it will take hundred times longer for a single person to execute.
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