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Re:2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test by freehunter on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @03:48PM (#25129607)
If everything else is the same, that seems like a solid reason to prefer the ARM architecture even setting aside 1:1 comparisons. Isn't faster compilation and execution the whole point of a faster processor?
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Re:2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test by kag0 on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @04:34PM (#25130190)
The assertion is that compilation might be faster since there are fewer optimizations, and therefore runtime would be slower.
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