What Your Computer Does While You Wait

This post takes a look at the speed - latency and throughput - of various subsystems in a modern commodity PC, an Intel Core 2 Duo at 3.0GHz. I hope to give a feel for the relative speed of each component and a cheatsheet for back-of-the-envelope performance calculations. I've tried to show real-world throughputs (the sources are posted as a comment) rather than theoretical maximums. Time units ar

[masami256]

これは良記事。

[fcicq]

see those latency.

[akymrk]

L1/L2/Ram/Disk/network latency

[hitsujibane]

コンピュータの動作が遅いとき、内部では何が起こっているかについて