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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

sergeykhegay

As part of the Google Summer of Code 2016, I was lucky enough to contribute
to Nmap Security Scanner open source project. It was not easy all along, the
were some difficulties and frustrating moments, but overall I got a very
positive experience.

I would like to thank my mentor, Fotis Chantzis, community, and all the 
developers who provided helpful feedback and suggestions, Patrick Donnelly, 
Daniel Miller, and, my fellow GSoC participant, Vincent Dumont.

During the summer I worked on two major tasks: improving brute.lua and adding