From 385371f1f8a4ea6430894dd9a2ec9418253afbef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bnewbold Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 11:00:36 -0500 Subject: misc additions --- software/misc.page | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) (limited to 'software/misc.page') diff --git a/software/misc.page b/software/misc.page index 8152c92..ecedf85 100644 --- a/software/misc.page +++ b/software/misc.page @@ -123,3 +123,28 @@ are invisible within Inkscape but visible when exported. To remove this box, edit the raw XML using the XML Editor in Inkscape (Shift-Ctrl-X), look for an svg:flowRoot element within the first layer, and delete it. + +Latency Numbers +----------------- + +From https://gist.github.com/2841832:: + + 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 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 0.15 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 + + Notes: + 1 ns = 10-9 seconds + 1 ms = 10-3 seconds + * Assuming ~1GB/sec SSD -- cgit v1.2.3