jboner

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

lbruder

/*******************************************************************************
*
* A minimal Forth compiler in C
* By Leif Bruder <leifbruder@gmail.com> http://defineanswer42.wordpress.com
* Release 2014-04-04
*
* Based on Richard W.M. Jones' excellent Jonesforth sources/tutorial
*
* PUBLIC DOMAIN
*

pervognsen

enum { BMAX = 32, BMIN = BMAX / 2, BHEIGHT = 6 };

struct BNode {
    uint32_t length;
    Key keys[BMAX];
    union {
        BNode *children[BMAX];
        Value values[BMAX];
    };
};