Rizwan Virk
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
They might have Instagram in the window.
What's happening is this process is in the foreground while they're watching YouTube, and then all these other processes are in the background.
And so when a process runs, it just knows I'm going to the next step, I'm going to the next step.
doesn't necessarily know how many seconds have passed.
So what the CPU does is it stops executing this window and it runs the background programs for a little while.
And then it comes back and it runs this one for a while.
So technically speaking, they're not really parallel, but you don't know it because it just appears like they're all running at the same time.
But if you're inside one program,
That program could have been paused and you could have been running โ the computer could run any number of programs or processes on the side and then it starts running you again and you think no time has passed or nothing has passed.
If you're trying to do it yourself, right?
Well, that's why you have to limit it, right?
You can't do all the scenarios.
You try to figure out what is the best one.
Then you make that choice in the game.
And then you start moving forward from that.
I don't know what to do.