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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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