Not an intuitive thing but the data is fascinating. A couple of notes of people who are confused by it:
1) The 'ns' next to the box is a graph legend not a data label (normally that would be in a box labeled legend to distinguish it from graph data)
2) The weird box and rectangle thing on the top is a slider, I didn't notice that until I was looking at the code and said "what slider?"
3) The only changes from 2005 to present are storage and networking speeds.
What item #3 tells you is that any performance gains in the last decade and a half you've experienced have been driven by multi-core, not faster processors. And that means Amdahl's Law is more important than Moore's Law these days.
1) The 'ns' next to the box is a graph legend not a data label (normally that would be in a box labeled legend to distinguish it from graph data)
2) The weird box and rectangle thing on the top is a slider, I didn't notice that until I was looking at the code and said "what slider?"
3) The only changes from 2005 to present are storage and networking speeds.
What item #3 tells you is that any performance gains in the last decade and a half you've experienced have been driven by multi-core, not faster processors. And that means Amdahl's Law is more important than Moore's Law these days.