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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by dylan604 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:00PM (#25072620)
Oh dear lawd, Electron apps can get slower?
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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by sroussey on Thursday November 12, 2020 @03:45PM (#25074739)
Oh yes. JS -> bytecode-> JIT for x64 -> interpreted and converted to ARM (both using CPU and memory).

And most use electron-builder which does not have Mac Arm support. Expect super slow mode for a while!

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