jboner

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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package main

import "code.google.com/p/go-tour/pic"

func Pic(dx, dy int) [][]uint8 {
	// Allocate two-dimensioanl array.
	a := make([][]uint8, dy)
	for i := 0; i < dy; i++ {
		a[i] = make([]uint8, dx)
	}