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Magnitude of Numbers

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Latency Numbers Programmers Should Know

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Latency Operations
<=1ns
  • accessing CPU registers
  • CPU clock cycle
  • L1 cache
1-10ns
  • L2 cache
  • branch mispredict
10-100ns
  • L3 cache
  • mutex lock/unlock
  • main memory referencing
100-1000ns
  • trapping of system call
  • md5 …