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Re:Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery by lend000 on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @10:47PM (#25205857)
At the hardware level, does this mean they have a much faster TLB than competing CPU's, perhaps optimized to patterns in which NSObjects are allocated? Speaking of which, does Apple use a custom malloc or one of the popular implementations like C malloc, tcmalloc, jemalloc, etc.?
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Re:Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery by saagarjha on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @03:42AM (#25207162)
Apple uses its own libmalloc: https://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/libmalloc/
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