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Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know - MarkDown Fork

Latency Comparison Numbers

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Event Nanoseconds Microseconds Milliseconds Comparison
L1 cache reference 0.5 - - -
Branch mispredict 5.0 - - -
L2 cache reference 7.0 - - 14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock 25.0 - - -