--- title: "A trillion dollars" url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-trillion-dollars-j4227tplj source_url: https://fzakaria.com/2026/06/15/a-trillion-dollars type: article source: "Farid Zakaria’s Blog" published: 2026-06-15T15:53:14.294Z updated: 2026-06-15T15:55:00.763Z tags: ["performance"] reading_time: 2 upvotes: 16 comments: 1 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A trillion dollars **[Farid Zakaria’s Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/fzakaria)** · 2 min read · 16 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A creative analogy mapping Jeff Dean's classic latency numbers to dollar amounts, where $1 equals 1 nanosecond. The table scales from L1 cache ($1) through cross-Atlantic round trips ($150M) up to the time it takes to link a massive C++ binary (~16.6 minutes), which maps to $1 trillion — a nod to recent headlines about Elon Musk's net worth. The author also built an interactive scrollable visualization to make the scale tangible. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@henbomb** · 0 upvotes > why end world hunger when you can just be a trillionare and suck ur own dick off ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The 200ms latency: A developer’s guide to real-time personalization](https://daily.dev/posts/the-200ms-latency-a-developer-s-guide-to-real-time-personalization-u7s5bwkwz) · InfoWorld · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#performance](https://daily.dev/tags/performance) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/a-trillion-dollars-j4227tplj)