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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

@abelsonlive
abelsonlive / scrapeBikeShare.R
Created May 13, 2012 23:41
Scrape NYC BikeShare Data
require("rjson")
#generate urls to scrape
#I determined the lowest and highest unique ids
#by looking at the page that had just the coordinates
root.url <- "http://a841-tfpweb.nyc.gov/bikeshare/get_point_info?point="
id<- seq(11992,12404, by=1)
urls <- paste(root.url, id, sep="")
@paulfitz
paulfitz / Makefile
Created December 21, 2010 13:51
This is format specification for table differences
default:
asciidoc tdiff_spec_draft.txt