Numbers everyone should know 0.5 ns – CPU L1 dCACHE reference 1 ns – speed-of-light (a photon) travel a 1 ft (30.5cm) distance 5 ns – CPU L1 iCACHE Branch mispredict 7 ns – CPU L2 CACHE reference 71 ns – CPU cross-QPI/NUMA best case on XEON E5-46* 100 ns – MUTEX lock/unlock 100 ns … Read more
The Google Code project does reference a technical paper on the implementation of the ring buffer, however it is a bit dry, academic and tough going for someone wanting to learn how it works. However there are some blog posts that have started to explain the internals in a more readable way. There is an … Read more
For macOS, there is the Network Link Conditioner that simulates configurable bandwidth, latency, and packet loss. It is contained in the Additional Tools for Xcode package.