John McCalpin

APRIL 25, 2023

For most high-end processors these values have remained in the range of 75% to 85% of the peak DRAM bandwidth of the system over the past 15-20 years — an amazing accomplishment given the increase in core count (with its associated cache coherence issues), number of DRAM channels, and ever-increasing pipelining of the DRAMs themselves.

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Cache Latency Tuning 97

Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

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.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Strategy Internet Internet 59

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

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.

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. Since 2010, volumes have been on a slow downward glide path , shrinking from ~350MM per year in a decade ago to ~260MM in 2018. was a system properly localised?

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90