State of the art of Serverless - Q1 2026 - MHz
Go back to listTo assess the raw computational performance of each serverless platform, this benchmark uses lmbench's mhz utility, a lightweight, low-level tool that estimates the effective CPU clock frequency as seen by the running process. Rather than relying on the nominal clock speed advertised by the provider, mhz measures the actual number of CPU cycles per second by timing a tight loop of integer operations, offering a ground-truth view of the compute performance available to a function at runtime.
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