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Re:Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery by nemothekid on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @04:55PM (#25214715)
Ok. However the posts in this thread were asking how the M1 Macs could use less RAM than Intel Macs, not if they were more optimized. The GP started with:

>This quote doesn’t really cover why M1 macs are more efficient with less ram than intel macs? You’ve got a memory budget, it’s likely broadly the same on both platforms

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Re:Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery by Twisell on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @05:21PM (#25214936)
Well, if less memory is used to store garbage thanks to RC, less memory is needed. But that was largely discussed in other sub-comments hence why we focused more on the optimisation aspect in this thread.
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Re:Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery by nemothekid on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @05:24PM (#25214959)
>Well, if less memory is used to store garbage thanks to RC, less memory is needed

But both Intel Macs and ARM Macs use RC. Both chips are running the same software.

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