Latency, Visualised
2026-01-02 —
Michael Haupt
Here is a beautiful interactive visualisation of how long things take in and around computers, from L1 cache references to an IP packet roundtrip from the Netherlands to California and back. Each duration is a bar that’s proportional in length to all the others. That gives you a sense of relations. What’s even more fun is that you can also go back in time and observe how performance has evolved during the years.
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