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Considering that no one with an apple M1 chip is gaming or training ML with it, I'm not even sure what it means that these are supposedly better. What are peopl

by naillo 4y ago

Considering that no one with an apple M1 chip is gaming or training ML with it, I'm not even sure what it means that these are supposedly better. What are people even using the extra performance for? Keeping thousands of tabs open simultaneously?

maccard 4y ago
We use it for compilation. The M1 Mac Pro we use is about 50% quicker than the i7 we had before it for an end to end compile of our project.
- amelius 4y ago
  Compilation is just fast for me. A 100% increase in speed won't make a real difference. (Except when I compile an entire project from scratch, which I almost never do.)
  - maccard 4y ago
    I work on a medium sized project. A full rebuild is about 25 minutes on the M1 Mac and was about 55 minutes on the i7 Mac mini we used before. The "normal" build (what most developers have to face semi-regularly) is about 15 minutes on the Intel and about 4 on the M1. (I checked our CI numbers and can't explain the discrepancy sorry but I would guess the M1 Mac is quicker linking and the link time dominates). Our CI does clean builds once a week, and the other builds somewhat regularly. Reducing the feedback loop by 10 minutes for a developers post merge check is a huge win IMO.
Joeri 4y ago
Audio and video production, and web and app development. I don’t think many people are switching from linux and windows (although I switched from a linux thinkpad to m1 air), but those upgrading from intel macs to m1 macs are seeing huge jumps.
zimpenfish 4y ago
> Considering that no one with an apple M1 chip is gaming or training ML with it, Anecdatum of one: I use my M1 chip for gaming (predominantly Minecraft with smatterings of Cities Skyline, Rocket League, etc.) (I have trained MLs using the Metal version of Torch, too, but generally only tiny textgenrnn things for fun.)

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Considering that no one with an apple M1 chip is gaming or training ML with it, I'm not even sure what it means that these are supposedly better. What are peopl

by naillo 4y ago

maccard 4y ago
We use it for compilation. The M1 Mac Pro we use is about 50% quicker than the i7 we had before it for an end to end compile of our project.
- amelius 4y ago
  Compilation is just fast for me. A 100% increase in speed won't make a real difference. (Except when I compile an entire project from scratch, which I almost never do.)
  - maccard 4y ago
    I work on a medium sized project. A full rebuild is about 25 minutes on the M1 Mac and was about 55 minutes on the i7 Mac mini we used before. The "normal" build (what most developers have to face semi-regularly) is about 15 minutes on the Intel and about 4 on the M1. (I checked our CI numbers and can't explain the discrepancy sorry but I would guess the M1 Mac is quicker linking and the link time dominates). Our CI does clean builds once a week, and the other builds somewhat regularly. Reducing the feedback loop by 10 minutes for a developers post merge check is a huge win IMO.
Joeri 4y ago
Audio and video production, and web and app development. I don’t think many people are switching from linux and windows (although I switched from a linux thinkpad to m1 air), but those upgrading from intel macs to m1 macs are seeing huge jumps.
zimpenfish 4y ago
> Considering that no one with an apple M1 chip is gaming or training ML with it, Anecdatum of one: I use my M1 chip for gaming (predominantly Minecraft with smatterings of Cities Skyline, Rocket League, etc.) (I have trained MLs using the Metal version of Torch, too, but generally only tiny textgenrnn things for fun.)