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“This Kernel Was Faster Yesterday” — In Pursuit of High-Fidelity GPU Kernel Benchmarking

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“This Kernel Was Faster Yesterday” — In Pursuit of High-Fidelity GPU Kernel Benchmarking

“This Kernel Was Faster Yesterday” — In Pursuit of High-Fidelity GPU Kernel Benchmarking ← Blog 24 February 2026 “This Kernel Was Faster Yesterday” — In Pursuit of High-Fidelity GPU Kernel Benchmarking After Salvador Dalí’s The Persistence of Memory TL;DR GPU timing is deceptively hard and highly variable : power limits, thermal state, clock behavior, idle transitions, caching, and measurement methods all matter. High-fidelity evaluation is critical, especially for automated RL systems. In high-value matmul kernels, where even 5% matters, measurement noise can look like real gains and mislead

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