trevnorris

Notes:

• Text in [[ ]] are the internal libuv function call.
• Text in {{ }} are the Node functions that are affected.
• Text in ( ) are notes about what is happening.
• While the Windows event loop has minor variations, I don't believe any of those affect Node.

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jboner

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