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Latency numbers every programmer should know
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
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 0.01 ms
Read 1 MB sequentially from memory 250,000 ns 0.25 ms
Round trip within same datacenter 500,000 ns 0.5 ms
Read 1 MB sequentially from SSD 1,000,000 ns 1 ms 4X memory
Disk seek 10,000,000 ns 10 ms 20x datacenter roundtrip
Read 1 MB sequentially from disk 20,000,000 ns 20 ms 80x memory, 20X SSD
Send packet CA->Netherlands->CA 150,000,000 ns 150 ms
By Jeff Dean (http://research.google.com/people/jeff/)
With some updates from Brendan: http://brenocon.com/dean_perf.html
Comparisons from https://gist.github.com/2844130
Assuming ~1GB/sec SSD
1 ns = 10-9 seconds
1 ms = 10-3 seconds
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