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shanbhardwaj / latency.txt
Created June 1, 2012 17:18 — forked from jboner/latency.txt
Latency numbers every programmer should know
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
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 0.01 ms
SSD random read 150,000 ns
Read 1 MB sequentially from memory 250,000 ns 0.25 ms
Round trip within same datacenter 500,000 ns 0.5 ms
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shanbhardwaj / getemacs.sh
Created November 27, 2011 07:26
full screen emacs 24 on osx snow leopard/lion
# Git Emacs 24 from the main Savannah (savannah.gnu.org) repository and apply typester's fullscreen patch
rm -fr emacs
git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git
cd emacs
wget http://cloud.github.com/downloads/typester/emacs/feature-fullscreen.patch
patch -p1 -i feature-fullscreen.patch
cd ..
curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.13.tar.gz
tar -xzvf m4-1.4.13.tar.gz
cd m4-1.4.13