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Re:Framework Laptop with Ubuntu Review by google234123 on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @04:13AM (#29806835)
You sure this is true? I would bet the M1 is faster https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/apple-m1-compiles-lin...
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Re:Framework Laptop with Ubuntu Review by samhw on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @07:34AM (#29808179)
As he explicitly points out, the benchmark amounts to cross-compiling for the Intel CPU vs compiling native code for the Mac CPU, so it's not exactly even. I have no dog in this hunt, I don't have an M1 Mac and I don't care, but it felt wrong to let that stand without correction.
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Re:Framework Laptop with Ubuntu Review by pja on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @11:11AM (#29810773)
Kernel compiles are not particularly memory hungry. LLVM compiles on the other hand are very memory hungry, especially during linking.

I’m sure there are other 'workstation-ish' jobs that people would happily run on their laptop if it had > 16Gb memory. 64Gb is quite the leap.

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