Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know

latency.txt

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
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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'Humanized' comparison:  https://gist.github.com/hellerbarde/2843375
Visual comparison chart: http://i.imgur.com/k0t1e.png

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

// Number to guess: How big of an array (in bytes)
// can we allocate and fill with 5s in a second?
// The catch: We do it out of order instead of in order.
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
    int NUMBER, i;
    NUMBER = atoi(argv[1]);

    char* array = malloc(NUMBER);
    int j = 1;
    for (i = 0; i < NUMBER; ++i) {
        j = j * 2;
        if (j > NUMBER) {
            j = j - NUMBER;
        }
        // array[j] = j; // 没有局部访问性
        array[i] = j; // 有空间局部访问性，有效使用缓存
    }

    printf("%d", array[NUMBER / 7]);
    // so that -O2 doesn't optimize out the loop

    return 0;
}

Answer：108-109
主存访问是100ns级别，L2缓存是10ns级别，L1缓存是0.5ns级别

参考博客 DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH YOUR COMPUTER CAN DO IN A SECOND?