Temporal Side Effects
Side effects due to the time taken for an operation to execute are usually ignored when discussing side effects and referential transparency. In most programs it is desirable to replace a long operation with an equivalent shorter one e.g. replacing (60 / 3 * 2) with 40. There are some cases, such as with hardware timing or testing, where operations are inserted specifically for their temporal side effects e.g. Sleep(5000) or for(i=0; i < 10000; i++){}. These instructions do not change state other than taking an amount of time to complete.
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