Latency Numbers, visualised and memorised

There is a well known Github Gist “Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know ”, which explains which things take how long.

Scaled Latency Numbers

If you scale these things down 3 billion times, a clock cycle (0.3ns) becomes a second. And suddenly things are relateable. (Tweet )

Another attempt to visualize this , not entirely unlike this XKCD .