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The Scale of Latency

A journey from nanoseconds to years.
Scroll through the timescales of computing.

From an L1 cache hit at 0.5 ns

To a hardware refresh at 1 year

That's a difference of 10^16 orders of magnitude.

You've reached 1 year

From the blink of a CPU cycle to the rhythm of annual planning.
Every layer matters in the architecture of systems.

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