Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs

Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by nicoburns on Monday June 22, 2020 @07:08PM (#23607994)

> Graviton2 compensates by just throwing 64 cores at the problem, but that's not going to do anything for your Electron-based text editor that struggles to use 2 CPU cores in the first place. Or for a typical webpage, which struggles to use more than a single CPU core.

More cores will help your typical developer who's running 8+ apps at once, along with several browser tabs that are all running in separate processes.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by imtringued on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @07:06AM (#23612361)

Webapps are kinda like mobile phone apps. Only one tab is open and therefore only one process is actually running latency sensitive code. It's very unusual when a web app is using significant resources in the background since no rendering is taking place. Of course there are exceptions to the rule. One or two powerful cores are often all that's necessary.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by nicoburns on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @07:35AM (#23612572)

Perhaps. But it's not at all uncommon for me to be running Chrome with devtools + Firefox + webpack + Sublime Text + xcode + a second webpack for react-native + an iphone simulator + Android Studio + flipper for debugging + Slack...

This definitely makes my computer run slowish (esp. Android Studio!). Of course I can shut things down and run fewer things at once, but it would definitely provide value to me not to have to.

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