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Re:How Apple’s rivals plan to catch up with the M1 chip by 908B64B197 on Saturday December 26, 2020 @01:19PM (#25545253)
> My understanding is that apple spent considerable effort on baking into silicon the ability to do some common memory-management related OSX/iOS low-level operations.

I think they profiled these operations easily and made sure that they were cheap to execute on their CPU but I'm not certain there's dedicated silicon for that.

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Re:How Apple’s rivals plan to catch up with the M1 chip by angry_octet on Saturday December 26, 2020 @06:20PM (#25547270)
Additionally, I can't think of anything that would be useful for MacOS (Mach related or not) that wouldn't also help other operating systems.
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