Hacker News with Generative AI: Performance Analysis

Yandex's High-Performance Profiler Is Now Open Source (medium.com)
Hello! Yesterday, we open-sourced Perforator, a continuous profiling system we use at Yandex, to analyze the performance of most of our services.

Open Source, Performance Analysis, Profiling Tools, Yandex

34 points by riv991 21 days ago | 1 comments

Yandex Open-Sources Perforator: Find Code Inefficiencies (phoronix.com)
Internet tech company Yandex announced the open-source release today of Perforator as a tool to help identify and evaluate code inefficiencies at scale.

Open Source, Software Development, Code Optimization, Performance Analysis

8 points by LorenDB 22 days ago | 0 comments

Two Parameter Model for Running Performance (normalizingconstant.com)
Human running performance from real-world big data is a super cool paper from 2020 that analyzes 14,000 people’s running activities.

Sports, Data Science, Machine Learning, Performance Analysis

7 points by brendanashworth 92 days ago | 0 comments

Metal-benchmarks: Apple GPU microarchitecture (github.com/philipturner)
This document thoroughly explains the Apple GPU microarchitecture, focusing on its GPGPU performance. Details include latencies for each ALU assembly instruction, cache sizes, and the number of unique instruction pipelines. This document enables evidence-based reasoning about performance on the Apple GPU, helping people diagnose bottlenecks in real-world software. It also compares Apple silicon to generations of AMD and Nvidia microarchitectures, showing where it might exhibit different performance patterns.