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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by valuearb on Thursday November 12, 2020 @12:16PM (#25072001)
One of the most common operations done in MacOS is retain/release of objects. Rosetta2 translated code is TWICE as fast on the M1 as the original code on x86.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Catfish_Man/status/13262387851813...

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by AnthonyMouse on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:29PM (#25073842)
Microbenchmarks are meaningless. Where are the benchmarks of real-world applications?
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