The cost of I/O

Karl Wettin <[email protected]> Thu, 9 Mar 2017 17:08:23 +0100
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A colleague of mine understood why and really how fast prevalence is =
after seeing this chart on cost of I/O:

L1-cache              3 cycles
L2-cache             14 cycles
RAM                 250 cycles
Disk         41 000 000 cycles
Network     240 000 000 cycles


It really says it all.




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