Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production for Mac

Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by flohofwoe on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @12:55PM (#26958500)

> but compiling code will still be faster

I don't know about that, LLVM is getting slower with each new release too [1]. Same for Xcode: startup is very noticeably slower than a few years ago on the same machine. Starting into a debugging session for the first time is much slower (it used to be instant, now it's multiple seconds). The new build system in Xcode is most definitely slower than the old one, at least for projects with more than a handful compile targets. Etc etc etc... new software is only optimized to a point where performance doesn't hurt too much on the developer's machine.

[1] https://www.npopov.com/2020/05/10/Make-LLVM-fast-again.html

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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by ogre_codes on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @02:21PM (#26959512)

I suppose that’s a fair comment. The whole build system and IDE slow down when working with Swift. It’s possible Swift wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for faster processors.

One nice thing is Swift is slow to build but quick at runtime.

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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by nicoburns on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @01:53PM (#26959198)

The work off the back of that article has mostly halted that I think.

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