sbp

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys, struct, binascii

def header(bytes): 
   return struct.unpack('>NNccccc', bytes)

def parse(bytes): 
   signature = bytes[:8]
   bytes = bytes[8:]

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                    Version 2, December 2004

 Copyright (C) 2011 Mathieu 'p01' Henri http://www.p01.org/releases/

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Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference                           0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                            5   ns
L2 cache reference                           7   ns                      14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock                           25   ns
Main memory reference                      100   ns                      20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy             3,000   ns        3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network       10,000   ns       10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD*             150,000   ns      150 us          ~1GB/sec SSD