Honey Code

sweet, delicious computer code

May 31
Perhaps not the most complex program I’ve ever written, but the language is interesting. I like blocky and think it would make a good education tool for a smart kid.

Perhaps not the most complex program I’ve ever written, but the language is interesting. I like blocky and think it would make a good education tool for a smart kid.





latencies

L1 cache reference                  0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                   5 ns
L2 cache reference                  7 ns
Mutex lock/unlock                   25 ns
Main memory reference               100 ns
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy        3,000 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 disk    20,000,000 ns
Send packet CA->Netherlands->CA     150,000,000 ns

https://gist.github.com/2841832


May 30

“True responsibility is a combination of genuine agency and direct liability.” http://penny-arcade.com/2012/05/30

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