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Yes, but presumably they want to know what type of JS is being run.

The characteristics (memory access, numeric operations, etc) are complex and simply saying “make all of it fast” isn’t helpful - presumably intel is trying to make their chips faster at everything in general, but if they find that there are a few particular bottlenecks maybe they could allocate more resources/surface area to those particular instructions, etc

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Maybe then they can buy a PC and seat an employee that will spend all the day browsing the web. Instead of spying on everyone.

I'm sure that they already do, but how the entire world uses the internet isn't easily testable by any sane number of testers.

Not saying this is a remotely sane way to do the study, just that's probably the rationale

There's a middle ground. They could require all of their employees to opt their households in. They have a lot of employees.

If that's not enough, they could also require all their contractors to opt their households in.

Incredible. Intel offers a voluntary program that you want to turn into a mandatory program for employees' families.

No, I don't want that. I'm just suggesting a way for them to not have to ask the world for this data by eating their own dog food, in the context of this thread, in a consciously unfriendly way.

ARM added a few opcodes for JS. Seems like this is a solved problem.

The particular opcode was a very low cost one - most of the win came from memory savings (it’s basically float->int conversion with overridden round mode)

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