Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective

Re:Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective by chongli on Sunday November 29, 2020 @08:27AM (#25245003)

which is pretty typical of a last generation NVME drive

Those numbers are about 2-3x as fast as what my 2020 Intel-based MacBook Air gets.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective by kllrnohj on Sunday November 29, 2020 @10:12AM (#25245538)

Then sounds like Apple put some really garbage SSDs in the 2020 Intel-based Air, not sure what you're looking for here?

But 2-3x won't change swap from grinding to a halt to perfectly smooth, either. It's still over 20x slower than RAM.

More significant for swap usage though is random reads and read latency, neither of which are going to be particularly impressive on the M1's SSDs. You need something like Optane to make that a compelling case.

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