Backends 101: Choosing the Right Measurement Surface
Why this lesson exists When a program runs on a GPU, the only way to know where the real cost lies is to measure that GPU. Defaulting to the CPU sur…
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Why this lesson exists When a program runs on a GPU, the only way to know where the real cost lies is to measure that GPU. Defaulting to the CPU sur…
Originally published on The Daily Flare . Modern processors can perform enormous numbers of calculations, but moving data between a processor and me…
Originally published on The Daily Flare . For years, chip designers mostly treated a processor as one large piece of silicon. That approach still wo…
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…
“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…
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…