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All targeting solutions for sublight speed are computable.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Source? I'd estimate thousands to millions of cycles.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Not everything has to be computed in every computation cycle. Most things are already pre-computed and the operations to do the corrections would mostly be simple additions and multiplications.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Written in hand coded assembler language: Maybe 100 cycles. Actually Quake from 1997 used a very similar prediction for network coding and not joking, it took less than 60 cycles and the very same code has been used to guide the IRIS-T system - which by the way uses an 1.4Ghz ARM Quadcore.

Written in Dotnet: Your computer is to old. No matter which computer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

So they wrote Starfield in .net? /j