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Re:Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 3900X vs. Intel I9 in Software Develop... by gpderetta on Monday December 14, 2020 @04:09PM (#25423349)
As far as I understand that instruction is needed to get x86 FP semantics on ARM. I.e it doesn't make JS faster but just not as slow as it would otherwise be.

Also apparently most JS engines do not actually use the FP unit but can do most computations on the integer units (unless is really FP math) which normally have much lower latency (but also lower bandwidth).

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