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microtonalyesterday at 7:45 PM0 repliesview on HN

I think the list itself is super long winded and not very informative.

I agree. I have to complement the author for the effort put in. However it misses the point of the original Latency numbers every programmer should know, which is to build an intuition for making good ballpark estimations of the latency of operations and that e.g. A is two orders of magnitude more expensive than B.