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@hellerbarde
hellerbarde / latency.markdown
Created May 31, 2012 13:16 — forked from jboner/latency.txt
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
SSD random read ........................ 150,000 ns  = 150 µs

Read 1 MB sequentially from memory ..... 250,000 ns = 250 µs

@JSchaenzle
JSchaenzle / RapidXmlExample.c
Created May 18, 2012 18:37
RapidXml example parsing beer journal
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <vector>
#include "rapidxml-1.13/rapidxml.hpp"
using namespace rapidxml;
using namespace std;
@tracend
tracend / gist:912308
Created April 10, 2011 12:40
DirectInput keyboard scan codes
/****************************************************************************
*
* DirectInput keyboard scan codes
*
****************************************************************************/
#define DIK_ESCAPE 0x01
#define DIK_1 0x02
#define DIK_2 0x03
#define DIK_3 0x04
#define DIK_4 0x05