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Maybe? As an experienced engineer, you should be able to use your experience to estimate the latency. Very few things are truly novel.

• _gabe_ 4y ago
  As an experienced engineer, you should know that you can never give a good estimate. Very few things are as you would expect them to be. I looked for an article on how to estimate latency. When I Google "how to estimate the latency of my program" the top results are: "Network Latency Guide: How to Check, Test, & Reduce" "How to Measure Latency - Obkio" "How to measure network latency: the 5 best tools - Kadiska" They're all about measuring latency. Honestly I can't find any blog or guide that talks about how to give good estimates. Every time I Google a different variation of this question, it only gives me results that talk about how to measure latency. If you can point me to a good source that talks about how you can provide a good estimate of latency, I would be very surprised ;)
  • pclmulqdq 4y ago
    Use a table of common latencies, add up what's going to happen on your critical path, and multiply by 2. That will be close to your median latency. Edit - when people ask for estimates, they usually aren't asking if it's 1 millisecond or 2 milliseconds. They're asking if it's closer to 1 millisecond or 100 milliseconds.