Thomas Lumley • 8/24/2023

Benchmark Archaeology

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The article examines a historical performance benchmark from the R mailing list, comparing the speed of R, S, and compiled C code for a loop-intensive statistical algorithm. It revisits the benchmark on modern Apple M1 hardware, showing significant speed gains but less than predicted by Moore's Law, and discusses reasons like single-threaded execution and cache utilization.

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