I wonder whether linux could benefit from the specific architecture changes of the M1. Apple's made a big technical claim of the hardware acceleration of refere

I wonder whether linux could benefit from the specific architecture changes of the M1. Apple's made a big technical claim of the hardware acceleration of reference counting - another OS and toolchain optimizing around it to any extent would test their claims. This both reads a little overly optimistic to me knowing how proprietary things are - but linux and foss software have history of running on all manner of platforms. Arguments based on: "you can only get a client machine with at max 16 gig of ram" or "you can't plunk an M1 into a server chassis with all the hardware you need" and so on may be various amounts of preliminary (we only have 1 chip from them yet and it's clearly a 'first out the door' type near-beta) to actually relevant.