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Does the M1 make programs use less RAM somehow?

• imwillofficial 6y ago
  I don’t know how, but similar workloads between my intel MacBook Pro and M1 MacBook Air show about half the ram usage on the M1
  • Eric_WVGG 6y ago
    The M1 seems to be designed around the retain/release cycles that are at the core of everything Apple has been building on going all the way back to NeXTSTEP https://twitter.com/catfish_man/status/1326238434235568128?s=21 https://twitter.com/catfish_man/status/1326238434235568128?s...
    • blep-arsh 6y ago
      This tweet has nothing to do with RAM usage. Maybe about the performance of (uncontended) atomic operations if I'm reading this corectly.
• alwayssmh 6y ago
  possibly yes due to how it now sits closer to the cpu and other components. Utilization is also different. See: https://www.howtogeek.com/701804/how-unified-memory-speeds-up-apples-m1-arm-macs/ https://www.howtogeek.com/701804/how-unified-memory-speeds-u... the current concern is how all these impact SSD(harddisk) life and health due to how swap memory is managed. It may be the reason why Apple priced such a breakthrough technology so competitively.