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Re:Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree by baq on Friday April 09, 2021 @02:30AM (#26747311)
Don’t equate ARM with Apple silicon. If the M1 was an x86 cpu it’d blow Intel out of the water exactly the same way it did now.
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Re:Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree by 58028641 on Friday April 09, 2021 @02:34AM (#26747328)
Not quite as fast. M1 has 8 wide decode, which would be difficult to do with x86 because x86 has variable instruction lengths.
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Re:Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree by ben-schaaf on Friday April 09, 2021 @04:47AM (#26748154)
> Zen 2 has has 8-wide issue in many places, and Ice Lake moves up to 6-wide.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25258985

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