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Apple has been using x86 for practically 15 years now. Your theory is this whole time they've been too lazy to bother to implement "god mode" ? What about Wind
by whynotminot 6y ago
Apple has been using x86 for practically 15 years now. Your theory is this whole time they've been too lazy to bother to implement "god mode" ?
What about Windows and Linux on x86? Also too lazy?
It can be fun to put on the tin foil hat, but at least make sure the theory makes even a little bit of sense first.
- lern_too_spel 6y ago> What about Windows and Linux on x86? Also too lazy? No, Windows and Linux are significantly faster. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=macos1015-win10-ubuntu&num=10 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=macos101... Ubuntu has gotten significantly faster since 19.10, and other distros like ClearLinux are much faster still. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=clear-fall-2020&num=8 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=clear-fa...
- Teknoman117 6y agoI was not saying in any way that they didn't implement optimizations for x86 over the time that they used them. Of course they did. What I meant was that Apple themselves talked about significant optimization for Apple Silicon in Big Sur. The question is if any of these optimizations could have also been applied to x86 but aren't because x86 is the outgoing platform. I'm skeptical of the assertion (without supporting documentation) that there is some hardware design choice in Apple Silicon that makes it _drastically_ more memory (quantity) efficient than x86 when using presumably the same kernel, same toolchain frameworks (LLVM), etc.