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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. Stay tuned!

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Why Browsers Get Built

Alex Russell

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.

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How to Optimize Websites for Ad Publishers

Dotcom-Montior

A lot of the focus goes into the practice and processes of driving traffic to your site from an SEO perspective, but what if when visitors get to your site, they have a less than ideal experience? After all the elements are processed, a tree structure of all these objects is created and the page can be displayed.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

In 2010, having seemingly gone all-in with the tenets of open source development , the company brought MongoDB to the market as an open source database server. Though still not “profitable” by many benchmarks, it’s a lot closer to being so, perhaps in a big way.) 2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

Here are some examples: Neue Haas Grotesk (1956), Helvetica (1957), Arial (1982), Bau (2002), Akkurat (2004), Aktiv Grotesk (2010), Acumin (2015), Real (2015); Frutiger (1976), Myriad (1992), Monotype SST (2017), Squad (2018), Silta (2018); Collis (1993), Novel (2008), Elena (2010), Permian (2011), Lava (2013).

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

Advances in browser content processing. 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. Instead, experience teaches that it's the process of taking care to attend to those least-well-off that changes outcomes.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Alex Russell

Put another way, the performance gap between what devices the wealthy carry and what budget shoppers carry grew more this year (252 points) than the year-over-year gains from process and architecture at the volume price point (174 points). GHz Cortex-A53) on a 10nm process : Geekbench 6 scores for the Galaxy A51 versus today's leading device.