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Re:AWS Graviton vs. M1 vs. M1 Pro Node.js Benchmarks by brettdong on Thursday March 24, 2022 @12:16AM (#30786333)
Why don’t you run ARM containers on M1?
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Re:AWS Graviton vs. M1 vs. M1 Pro Node.js Benchmarks by nickjj on Thursday March 24, 2022 @08:42AM (#30788959)
It doesn't make much of a difference. macOS Docker performance is heavily limited by really poor volume mount performance.

In one of our projects the benchmarks look like this to run our test suite for a web app using volume mounts:

- 2020 Intel MBP (10th gen CPU, 32GB of memory, SSD): 37 seconds

- First generation M1 MBP: 31 seconds

- WSL 2: 3 seconds

The WSL 2 box is an old workstation I have from 6-7 years ago with an i5 3.2ghz CPU, 16gb of RAM and one of the first SSDs. All in all it was about $800.

The WSL 2 box is so fast for Docker because the volume performance is pretty much as good as native Linux. It's really fast.

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