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From JetStream to Silicon: Bridging Browser Benchmarks and CPU Design
JetStream 3 deliberately moved away from microbenchmarks, and for browser engineers that was the right call. Small, tight loops once let engines win benchmarks without making real web apps faster. Pre-silicon CPU teams face the opposite problem. They need to know how a chip that doesn't exist yet will run browser workloads, and a full JavaScript suite is nearly impossible to run on a simulator. The answer is not to abandon microbenchmarks, but to build ones that are correlate

Rajeev Gadgil
Oct 53 min read
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