See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27725286
My thoughts on this are that we could do with a better CPU usage measurement, which the author of this article found to be cycles.
My thoughts on this are that we could do with a better CPU usage measurement, which the author of this article found to be cycles.
All instructions do not have the same thermal cost, and even though my laptop's CPU is able to stand at 3.99GHz when running stress tests whereas its base clock is 2.59GHz, I doubt it would be able to do the same if it was running AVX2 instructions (or it does have quite impressive thermals for a laptop).
Also, does disabling throtling disable dynamic frequency scaling of the CPU's cache too ?