The latency for a L2 cache reference
The latency for a main memory reference
The latency for a L1 cache reference
The latency to compress 1 kilobyte with Zippy
The latency for a packet roundtrip from California to Netherlands
The latency for a branch mispredict
The latency for a round trip in the same datacenter
The latency to read one million bytes sequentially from memory
The latency for a mutex lock and unlock
The latency to read one million bytes sequentially from disk
The latency to send 2000 bytes over commodity network
The latency to read one million bytes sequentially from SSD
The latency for an SSD random read
The latency for a disk seek