Tag: #latency
How fast does an IP packet travel?
IP packets travel at ~20% the speed of light, with most time spent in routers rather than on the wire. 2017-01-01
Low latency, large working set, and GHC’s garbage collector: pick two of three
Large working sets and low latency are incompatible with GHC’s stop-the-world garbage collector, which optimizes for throughput instead of latency. The collector’s pause times scale linearly with working set size. 2016-05-12
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