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Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
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Latency Comparison Numbers | |
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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 | |
Read 1 MB sequentially from memory 250,000 ns 250 us | |
Round trip within same datacenter 500,000 ns 500 us | |
Read 1 MB sequentially from SSD* 1,000,000 ns 1,000 us 1 ms ~1GB/sec SSD, 4X memory | |
Disk seek 10,000,000 ns 10,000 us 10 ms 20x datacenter roundtrip | |
Read 1 MB sequentially from disk 20,000,000 ns 20,000 us 20 ms 80x memory, 20X SSD | |
Send packet CA->Netherlands->CA 150,000,000 ns 150,000 us 150 ms | |
Notes | |
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1 ns = 10^-9 seconds | |
1 us = 10^-6 seconds = 1,000 ns | |
1 ms = 10^-3 seconds = 1,000 us = 1,000,000 ns | |
Credit | |
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By Jeff Dean: http://research.google.com/people/jeff/ | |
Originally by Peter Norvig: http://norvig.com/21-days.html#answers | |
Contributions | |
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Some updates from: https://gist.github.com/2843375 | |
'Humanized' comparison: https://gist.github.com/2843375 | |
Visual comparison chart: http://i.imgur.com/k0t1e.png | |
Animated presentation: http://prezi.com/pdkvgys-r0y6/latency-numbers-for-programmers-web-development/latency.txt |
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