NOTE: This is a question I found on StackOverflow which I’ve archived here, because the answer is so effing phenomenal.
If you are not into long explanations, see [Paolo Bergantino’s answer][2].
| Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012) | |
| ---------------------------------- | |
| 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 |
NOTE: This is a question I found on StackOverflow which I’ve archived here, because the answer is so effing phenomenal.
If you are not into long explanations, see [Paolo Bergantino’s answer][2].