[kwlug-disc] m1 RISC silicon: impression

[Doug Moen]

There's a thread on the OpenSCAD mailing list talking about a compute-intensive OpenSCAD program that takes 17.5s on an M1 Pro under MacOS, and the same job takes 12s on Ubuntu running in a VM on the same machine.

Interesting that M1+Linux is much faster.

Even though Asahi Linux isn't ready yet, someone is running Arch Linux on an M1 macbook pro.
https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1458473546225577987

Doug.

On Sat, Nov 6, 2021, at 6:37 PM, Doug Moen wrote:
> Yes. I'm considering buying a new macbook once Asahi Linux has a 
> working GPU driver. The new thicker, heavier Macbooks with more ports 
> and better repairability have tweaked my interest.
>
> On Sat, Nov 6, 2021, at 6:27 PM, Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc wrote:
>> My developer got a new apple with m1. We ran version of our soft with 
>> scrypt KPDF algorithm in javascript, totally non-optimized. We ran the 
>> x64 version first, and it went like regular linux x64 on x64 processor. 
>> Then we tried m1 version on this m1 chip, and we didn't really notice 
>> that part of the program with the progress bar. Stark difference. My 
>> hope that whole RISC industry will pick lessons from m1.
>>
>>
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