Re:16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world...
by duskwuff on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @01:54AM
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It's switchable at runtime. Apple silicon can enable total store ordering on a per-thread basis while emulating x86_64, then turn it back off for maximum performance in native code.
Here's a kernel extension someone built to manipulate this feature: https://github.com/saagarjha/TSOEnabler