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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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fred / active_admin.rb
Created May 2, 2012 08:10
extend active admin to prettier boolean values
# It extends activeadmin to show pretty boolean values
#
# config/initializers/active_admin.rb
module ActiveAdmin
module Views
class TableFor
def bool_column(attribute)
column(attribute){ |model| model[attribute] ? '✔'.html_safe : '✗'.html_safe }
end
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