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Deep Learning
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Deep Learning

by Josh Patterson, Adam Gibson
August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
530 pages
13h 23m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Appendix C. Numbers Everyone Should Know

Table C-1 lists the numbers everyone should know, also known as “Jeff Dean’s 12 Numbers.”

Table C-1. Jeff Dean’s 12 numbers
Computer architecture operation Duration (in nanoseconds)
L1 cache reference 0.5
Branch mispredict 5
L2 cache reference 7
Mutex lock/unlock 100
Main memory reference 100
Compress 1 KB with Zippy 10,000
Send 2 KB over 1 Gbps network 20,000
Read 1 MB sequentially from memory 250,000
Roundtrip within same datacenter 500,000
Disk seek 10,000,000
Read 1 MB sequentially from network 10,000,000
Read 1 MB sequentially from disk 30,000,000
Send packet CA->Netherlands->CA 150,000,000
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