Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

That meant I started having regular meetings with the hardware engineers who were working with IBM on the CPU which gave me even more expertise on this CPU, which was critical in helping me discover a design flaw in one of its instructions , and in helping game developers master this finicky beast. To the left of that is one of the CPU cores.

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Testing and Benchmarking : Thoroughly test triggers in a staging environment to evaluate their impact on performance. Benchmark different trigger implementations to identify the most efficient option. These table cache instances could be accessed concurrently, allowing DML to use cached table descriptors without locking each other.

Cache 59

Cache Database Games Healthcare 59

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. Audio Worklets are a fundamental enabler for rich media and games on the web.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

But any time memory and application logic moves into Python land, it’s game over. I suggest it’s long past time to move beyond C and SPEC benchmarks and our exclusive focus on “metal” languages. Are caches large enough for this code? So what can we as a research community do to tackle this challenge?

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

When deciding what to pick, there are many things to consider, like where the proxy needs to be, if it “just” needs to redirect the connections, or if more features need to be in, like caching and filtering, or if it needs to be integrated with some MySQL embedded automation. MySQL Router was never in the game.

Games 118

Games Latency Traffic Cache 118

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. In early January a related paper was published by Satoshi Matsuoka et. petaflops, which is 0.8%

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. 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. The Moto G4 , for example.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124