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layla5alivetoday at 4:42 AM2 repliesview on HN

Some 32-bit counter somewhere used when in NVLINK overflows?


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themafiatoday at 5:50 AM

66 days + 12 hours are 5,745,600,000,000,000 ns. The log2 of this is 52.351...

Javascript and some other languages only have integer precision up to 52 bits then they switch to floating point.

Curious.

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mooktoday at 4:56 AM

Isn't 32bit counter 49 days? Assuming that one was counting milliseconds, at least.

Only remember that because that's the limit for Windows 95…

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