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jboner / latency.txt
Last active July 15, 2025 00:14
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
@wki
wki / css_parser.pl
Created December 22, 2011 19:48
Sample CSS Parser using Marpa::XS
use strict;
use warnings;
use feature ':5.10';
use Marpa::XS;
use Data::Dumper;
#
# a simple CSS snippet for testing
#
my $text = q{
@lukeredpath
lukeredpath / ExampleClass.m
Created June 30, 2011 22:18
Macro for creating your "shared instance" using GCD
@implementation MySharedThing
+ (id)sharedInstance
{
DEFINE_SHARED_INSTANCE_USING_BLOCK(^{
return [[self alloc] init];
});
}
@end