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Why Browsers Get Built

Alex Russell

Examples include IE 7+ and Safari from 2010-onward. Distinguishing Traits # Shipped to many OSes Tiny platform teams (<20 people or <10% of the total team) Little benchmark interest or focus No platform feature leadership No standards footprint Platform feature availability lags the underlying engine (e.g.,

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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.