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I feel like I just read the introduction to a really interesting article.

It really seemrd like there was more to be said there.

I wish the chart extended past 28, otherwise how do we know that it tops out there?

It’s a very interesting benchmark (https://github.com/lemire/TestingMLP) — probably worth adding to the Phoronix or some wider suite.

Every couple of years I refresh my own parallel reduction benchmarks (https://github.com/ashvardanian/ParallelReductionsBenchmark), which are also memory-bound. Mine mostly focus on the boring simple throughput-maximizing cases on CPUs and GPUs.

Lately, as GPUs are pulled into more general data-processing tasks, I keep running into non-coalesced, pointer-chasing patterns — but I still don’t have a good mental model for estimating the cost of different access strategies. A crossover between these two topics — running MLP-style loads on GPUs — might be exactly the benchmark missing, in case someone is looking for a good weekend project!