Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast?

Re:Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast? by thoughtsimple on Monday November 30, 2020 @10:07PM (#25261849)

Virtualization and Docker are both well on their way. You can download working VM systems both very simple to the complex with QEmu. A Docker engineer announced on Twitter that he had a early (pre-alpha) version of Docker working on the M1.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/success-virtualize-wind...

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ubuntu-linux-virtualize...

https://twitter.com/morlhon/status/1332609373051478016?s=21

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Re:Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast? by Wubdidu on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @05:12AM (#25263960)

Docker is still super early in development, see the most recent update here: https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/142#issuecomment-73...

I wouldn't expect official stable support to be available very soon. Even then, even if most of the official Docker image library will have ARM support, a ton of community images will need to be ported – all of this will take quite some time.

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Re:Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast? by faitswulff on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @07:14AM (#25264513)

Not to mention Homebrew and associated packages.

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Re:Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast? by ecnahc515 on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @12:09AM (#25262550)

But they run ARM docker images, not x86.

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