# Optimization

## Latency

* L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
* Branch mispredict 5 ns
* L2 cache reference 7 ns
* Mutex lock/unlock 100 ns
* Main memory reference 100 ns
* Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 10,000 ns
* Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network 20,000 ns
* Read 1 MB sequentially from memory 250,000 ns
* Round trip within same datacenter 500,000 ns
* Disk seek 10,000,000 ns
* Read 1 MB sequentially from network 10,000,000 ns
* Read 1 MB sequentially from disk 30,000,000 ns
* Send packet CA->Netherlands->CA 150,000,000 ns

## Server

https://code.tubitv.com/how-we-discovered-a-7-year-old-performance-issue-in-elixir-99080bdce9a1
