Re:The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9
by cruano on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @07:49PM
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Oh come on, comparing it to the "best" intel mac laptop makes sense when you only care about that form factor/specific model, which is the case for a big part of many industries (Software included)
Re:The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9
by geerlingguy on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @07:03PM
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If it's only a matter of cooling why does the Intel also produce 4x the power consumption (not highlighted in the article, but still...).
If I wanted absolute best compile times I'd go build a threadripper workstation, but I need mobility and can't always rely on an Internet connection.
Re:The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9
by programmdude on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @05:22PM
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Well that's why the M1 is much better than the I9, not strictly because it's a faster chip, but because it's a more efficient chip. Efficiency = less cooling required.
I think part of it is because I don't care about mac computers. I'm interested in how the M1 - a consumer ARM chip - stacks up against the best x86_64 chip, not how it performs in one particular laptop.
It's been known for years that apple has been limiting the intel chips by providing insufficient cooling. I don't overly care about how fast an M1 chips in a macbook is compared to an intel chip in a macbook. I want to know how fast an M1 is compared to a desktop I9 (given mac minis have M1 chips now), or compared to a properly cooled laptop latest-gen I9.
All this experiment shows is that insufficiently cooled processors perform worse than sufficiently cooled ones. It's a classic example of cherrypicking data. Admittedly, my solution would be different to the article's author. Instead of using a badly cooled laptop to compile stuff, I'd setup a build server running linux.