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hellerbarde / latency.markdown
Created May 31, 2012 13:16 — forked from jboner/latency.txt
Latency numbers every programmer should know

Latency numbers every programmer should know

L1 cache reference ......................... 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict ............................ 5 ns
L2 cache reference ........................... 7 ns
Mutex lock/unlock ........................... 25 ns
Main memory reference ...................... 100 ns             
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy ............. 3,000 ns  =   3 µs
Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network ....... 20,000 ns  =  20 µs
SSD random read ........................ 150,000 ns  = 150 µs

Read 1 MB sequentially from memory ..... 250,000 ns = 250 µs

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jboner / latency.txt
Last active October 21, 2025 11:20
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
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
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msackman / QueueingConsumerCoDel.java
Created May 11, 2012 10:00
QueueingConsumer extended with the CoDel algorithm
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cmer / gist:1566734
Created January 5, 2012 19:16
UnixBench comparison of EC2 and Joe's Data Center
apt-get install -y build-essential libx11-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libxext-dev perl perl-modules make
cd /tmp
wget http://byte-unixbench.googlecode.com/files/UnixBench5.1.3.tgz
tar xzvf UnixBench5.1.3.tgz
cd UnixBench
./Run