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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Using a global ASP as a benchmark can further mislead thanks to the distorting effect of ultra-high-end prices rising while shipment volumes stagnate. But the hardware future is not evenly distributed, and web workloads aren't heavily parallel. Today, either method returns a similar answer.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Alex Russell

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Predictably, they are over-represented in analytics and logs owing to wealth-related factors including superior network access and performance hysteresis."