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Created June 1, 2012 13:29 — forked from hellerbarde/latency.markdown
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
Read 1 MB sequentially from memory ..... 250,000 ns  = 250 µs

Round trip within same datacenter ...... 500,000 ns = 0.5 ms