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tetsuok / latency.txt
Created May 31, 2012 17:11 — 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
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
Main memory reference 100 ns
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns
Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network 20,000 ns
Read 1 MB sequentially from memory 250,000 ns
Round trip within same datacenter 500,000 ns
Disk seek 10,000,000 ns
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tetsuok / foil_optimizer.cpp
Created February 7, 2016 23:56 — forked from socantre/foil_optimizer.cpp
CppCon 2015: Chandler Carruth "Tuning C++: Benchmarks, and CPUs, and Compilers! Oh My!" functions to disable compiler optimization
static void escape(void *p) {
asm volatile("" : : "g"(p) : "memory");
}
static void clobber() {
asm volatile("" : : : "memory");
}