John McCalpin

APRIL 25, 2023

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. Stay tuned!

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Cache Latency Tuning 97

Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

This adds powerfully to the usual moat-digger's weaponisation of consensus processes. Examples include IE 7+ and Safari from 2010-onward. native, OS-specific) platform and the hopefully weaker web platform. Apple has perfected the moat, preventing competitors from even potentially offering disruptive features.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Strategy Internet Internet 59

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Advances in browser content processing. 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. Modern network performance and availability. Content Is Dead, Long Live Content. Mind The Gap.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

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. Meanwhile, budget segment devices have finally started to see improvement ( as this series predicted ), thanks to hand-me-down architecture and process node improvements.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90