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Apple silicon has better support (hardware instructions) in saving / restoring memory. Helps with swapping "unused" things to the background and back.
by re-thc 3y ago
Apple silicon has better support (hardware instructions) in saving / restoring memory. Helps with swapping "unused" things to the background and back.
- tedunangst 3y agoWhat does a hardware instruction for swapping do?
- astrange 3y agoCompression/encryption/hashing acceleration. A reverse case being that x86 has a memcpy instruction and ARM didn't until recently.
- Zigurd 3y agoI think the parent comment meant there isn't a way to make memory more efficient when it comes to app data. And code takes up so much less memory that x86 vs ARM code size isn't going to make a measurable difference. In any case, 1.5TB is only going to help a few app niches. It is hard to even reliably predict which kinds. Even, say, editing 8K video could be well-enough accommodated with much less memory if file system bandwidth is high enough.