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@embolalia
embolalia / gist:5660363
Last active December 17, 2015 19:29
A quick script that makes my raspi light up for different ping times. It's a terrible hack, and was not written with the intent of making it public. Please don't hurt me.
#!/usr/bin/env python
import RPi.GPIO as gpio
from time import sleep
import re
import sys
gpio.setmode(gpio.BCM)
red = 23
yel = 24
@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active July 20, 2025 03:40
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