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pcolby / xmlToVariant.cpp
Last active December 28, 2022 19:44
Sample function for parsing a QXmlStreamReader (or part thereof) to a QVariant tree.
QVariantMap xmlStreamToVariant(QXmlStreamReader &xml, const QString &prefix = QLatin1String("."), const int maxDepth = 1024)
{
if (maxDepth < 0) {
qWarning() << QObject::tr("max depth exceeded");
return QVariantMap();
}
if (xml.hasError()) {
qWarning() << xml.errorString();
return QVariantMap();
@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active May 17, 2025 20:12
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