All targeting solutions for sublight speed are computable.
this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2023
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It takes a hell of a lot more than a single clock cycle to run a targeting algorithm.
Yep, around 200. The Missile meanwhile travels 0,2mm
Source? I'd estimate thousands to millions of cycles.
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.
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.
So they wrote Starfield in .net? /j