Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

View britisharmy's full-sized avatar
🎯
Focusing

Geoffrey britisharmy

🎯
Focusing
View GitHub Profile
@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active June 18, 2025 10:55
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
----------------------------------
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
@jiglesiasabio
jiglesiasabio / select-lang-codes
Created December 1, 2011 18:36
Select options for all languages HTML·FORM
http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/ISO-639-2_utf-8.txt
ISO-639-2 Standard three letter codes for langs
<option value="aar"> Afar </option>
<option value="abk"> Abkhazian </option>
<option value="ace"> Achinese </option>
<option value="ach"> Acoli </option>
<option value="ada"> Adangme </option>
<option value="ady"> Adyghe Adygei </option>