AWS is the world’s largest cloud provider. It’s hard to comprehend how many billions of times per second their instances compute string hashes and SHA-256 file checksums! After releasing StringZilla v4, I spun up instances of the last 3 Graviton generations, exploring optimization opportunities across NEON, SVE, and SVE2 extensions. Graviton 2Graviton 3Graviton 4 Context Availability year202020222024 Process node7 nm, TSMC5 nm, TSMC3nm, TSMC ArchitectureNeoverse N1Neoverse V1Neoverse V2 M...
