16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world Rust compile

Re:16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world... by whizzter on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @01:20PM (#25127436)

Not to forget that apparently some of the people driving that scrappy team that had a big part in Intel's resurgence has been working on the M1.

This actually reminded me of how I got skeptical comments from people when I told them that my small and scrappy Pentium-M (P-M -> M1, HAH!) based laptop was almost as fast as their desktop P4 monsters in compiling code.

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Re:16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world... by aidenn0 on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @02:29PM (#25128474)

The P4 (and Netburst in general) was a true low-point for Intel. Intel is struggling with fab issues right now, but things were really bad from about '02 to '06, with the P4 not completely going away until '08.

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Re:16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world... by Bayart on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @06:00PM (#25131076)

I remember people using socket adapters to put Pentium M chips on their desktop. I also have very bad memories of my P4 Prescott around the same era. What an absolute trash pile of an architecture.

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Re:16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world... by spronkey on Thursday November 19, 2020 @05:33AM (#25148093)

It wasn't actually that bad... Everyone likes to remember it as this massively power hungry beast with terrible performance. It was power hungry compared to what came later, but it did also provide some pretty good performance at the time - especially if you were the kind of tweaky nutter who liked to overclock.

Northwood was a relative bargain when you cranked the bus clocks up well beyond what it said on the box.

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