原文
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
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
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1 ns = 10-9 seconds
1 ms = 10-3 seconds
* Assuming ~1GB/sec SSD
Credit
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By Jeff Dean: http://research.google.com/people/jeff/
Originally by Peter Norvig: http://norvig.com/21-days.html#answers
Contributions
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Some updates from: https://gist.github.com/2843375
Great 'humanized' comparison version:https://gist.github.com/2843375
Visual comparison chart: http://i.imgur.com/k0t1e.png
Nice animated presentation of the data: http://prezi.com/pdkvgys-r0y6/latency-numbers-for-programmers-web-development/
- See more at:http://redislabs.com/blog/top-redis-headaches-for-devops-client-buffers#sthash.9rHluMPF.dpuf译文：
L1 cache ：………………………………………………..0.5ns
branch mispredict(转移、分支预测) : ……………..5ns
L2 cache :………………………………………………… 7ns
互斥锁\解锁 :…………………………………………….. 25ns
1k字节压缩(Zippy) : …………………………………….3000ns = 3us
在1Gbps的网络上发送2k字节 : ……………………….20,000ns = 20us
SSD随机读 ：……………………………………………..150,000ns = 150us
从内存顺序读取1MB ：…………………………………250,000ns = 250 us
同一个数据中心往返 ：………………………………….500,000ns = 0.5ms
从SSD顺序读取1MB ： …………………………………1,000,000ns = 1ms
磁盘搜索:…………………………………………………..10,000,000ns = 10ms
从磁盘里面读出1MB : …………………………………..20，000，000ns = 20ms
来源：oschina
链接：https://my.oschina.net/u/4287236/blog/4335731