The Same RTX 5090, but the GPU Sat Idle — a CPU-Bound Go Solver and the Case for L2 Cache
This is the second in a short series that benchmarks a single RTX 5090 by re-running published Go solvers — programs that don't just play Go but pro…
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Threads: The Tiny Workers Inside Your Computer 👷🧵
“If a program is a body, then a process is its soul. And threads are the hands, legs, and eyes doing the actual work.” When I first heard words like…
Your CPU Is Guessing the Future, and Wrong 5% of the Time
The "5%" in the title is the headline that gets people interested in branch prediction. It is also a workload-averaged number that papers over the o…