I submitted this earlier. This github project (not mine) has pretty extensive benchmarks and the M1 makes a very strong showing. https://news.ycombinator.com/i

I submitted this earlier. This github project (not mine) has pretty extensive benchmarks and the M1 makes a very strong showing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28346908 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28346908 On another note, I was amazed to see the SHA-1 and SHA-256 (and the Blake2b) performance numbers when running the benchmark of minio’s blake2b-simd (over M1 Golang) on a 16GB M1 Air. For some reason, Go on M1’s SHA-1 and SHA-256 are getting orders of magnitude better numbers (~2.5GB/sec!) and even the Blake2b code is beating the numbers for the same code running on an intel Air (which uses the SIMD codepath). https://github.com/minio/blake2b-simd https://github.com/minio/blake2b-simd