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The evolution of single-core bandwidth in multicore processors

John McCalpin

This metric is interesting because we don’t always have the luxury of parallelizing every application we run, and our operating systems almost always process each call (e.g., GHz, 1530 GB/s peak BW from 6 HBM stacks), I see single-thread sustained memory bandwidth of 304 GB/s on the ReadOnly benchmark used here.

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Why Browsers Get Built

Alex Russell

In both cases, the OS will task the browser team to heavily prioritise integrations with the latest OS and hardware features at the expense of more broadly useful capabilities — e.g. shipping "notch" CSS and "force touch" events while neglecting Push. Examples include IE 7+ and Safari from 2010-onward.