As the article says, the crypto on x86 is hand-optimized assembly, whereas the M1 is running the fallback C. In other benchmarks like geekbench, which are not

As the article says, the crypto on x86 is hand-optimized assembly, whereas the M1 is running the fallback C. In other benchmarks like geekbench, which are not benchmarking golang's libs, the M1 is massively stronger than Intel on e.g. AES-XTS. https://www.extremetech.com/computing/317304-benchmark-results-show-apple-m1-beating-every-intel-powered-macbook-pro https://www.extremetech.com/computing/317304-benchmark-resul... So hopefully the M1 gets the same hand-optimizing effort that x86 historically got.