Taylor Blau ttaylorr

Channels Are Not Enough

... or Why Pipelining Is Not That Easy

Golang Concurrency Patterns for brave and smart.

Intro

This guide is outdated

Please check out the official installation guide here: https://github.com/mark2devel/mark2/blob/master/INSTALL.md

Prerequisites

a vswap OpenVZ VPS or a KVM/Xen/VMware VPS with Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS installed (architecture doesn't matter), or a dedicated server
patience and a willingness to learn
approximately 10 minutes of time

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

	'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the racks
	Not a server was alerting, not even Compaqs.
	The backups were written to tapes with care
	In hopes that later the data would be there.

	The machines were nestled all snug in their sleds
	Whilst visions of vengeance danced in their heads;
	And oncall in his three-wolf and I in my rack.
	Had just settled down for some syn and some ack.