system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
If a computer runs at 1 Hz, how fast will it count through an empty for-loop?
gpt
Assuming 1 Hz is the clockspeed... No clue.  That's going to depend on the IPC of the CPU in question.

Most languages the answer would be "none, the compiler optimized the empty for loop into oblivion"

If you managed to remove the optimizations for C, and assume 1 for IPC, the assembly generated would be add and jump statements, so approximately 2s per iteration.