Count the Bytes, Not the FLOPs

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Count the Bytes, Not the FLOPs

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Count the bytes, not the FLOPs · thepragmaticquant.com

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The array was 160 MB. The answer we wanted from it was 16 kilobytes. Every byte in between was rent paid to DRAM.

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