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I wanna preface by saying I'm a huge linux fan, but a couple things: 1. I'm not sure what kernel optimizations for CERN's x86 machine have to do with ARM Apple

by hpen 2y ago

I wanna preface by saying I'm a huge linux fan, but a couple things: 1. I'm not sure what kernel optimizations for CERN's x86 machine have to do with ARM Apple Silicon. I get that in abstract improvements "could" trickle down from that but once again without any performance benchmarks that is the definition of speculation. Yeah, improvements and bug fixes get upstreamed but not every algorithm is going to optimized for the architecture of Apple Silicon.

throwaway1194 2y ago
> I get that in abstract improvements "could" trickle down from that but once again without any performance benchmarks that is the definition of speculation. Fair enough, I am not sure whether CPU schedulers are shared across architectures, I am also not aware of any recent benchmarks other than: https://www.phoronix.com/review/apple-m2-zen4-mobile https://www.phoronix.com/review/apple-m2-zen4-mobile Where I was going with my original statement/post is that I wouldn't be surprised to see Linux doing better in some benchmarks due to improvements in the kernel, there has been many recent developments such as io_uring[0], MGLRU, etc. that could make a difference compared to other systems. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-IWMbJXoLM&t=1004s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-IWMbJXoLM&t=1004s