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Re:Temptation of the Apple: Dolphin on macOS M1 by mengineer on Monday May 24, 2021 @03:17PM (#27268533)
I think android users are more aware that GPUs are where you'd spend money.

No one was competing for fastest single thread because no one needs it.

Well maybe marketers need it.

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Re:Temptation of the Apple: Dolphin on macOS M1 by spideymans on Monday May 24, 2021 @09:28PM (#27271714)
> No one was competing for fastest single thread because no one needs it.

A big part of the reasons why web applications are so darn fast on the M1 is it’s single-threaded performance. Remember that JavaScript itself is single-threaded

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Re:Temptation of the Apple: Dolphin on macOS M1 by girvo on Monday May 24, 2021 @08:30PM (#27271369)
> because no one needs it.

Engineers making pronouncements like this bring me no end of amusement. Surely we've learned by now that we're pretty terrible at these sorts of guesses?

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Re:Temptation of the Apple: Dolphin on macOS M1 by astrange on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @01:35AM (#27273046)
> No one was competing for fastest single thread because no one needs it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law

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