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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

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. Chrome has missed several APIs for 3+ years: Storage Access API. Gamepad API.

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AMD EPYC 7002 Series Processors and SQL Server

SQL Performance

It will also use less power than a two-socket Intel server, with a lower hardware cost, and potentially lower licensing costs (for things like VMware). The initial reviews and benchmarks for these processors have been very impressive: AMD EPYC 7002 Series Rome Delivers a Knockout. TPC-H Benchmark Results with SQL Server 2017.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

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

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. On a middle-class mobile device, that accounts for 15–25 seconds for Time-To-Interactive.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing and execution times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. compared to early 2015. The action uses mozjpeg and libvips that work with PNGs and JPGs.