[kwlug-disc] m1 RISC silicon: impression

[Mikalai Birukou]

Guys from Linus TechTips show were doing benchmarks: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUyD2QXfGUg

There is one element with apple's own something not working right, that 
supposed to run like crazy with hardware encoding (7:16 in video). May 
be this is related to mentioned weird thing. On linux apple's new code 
isn't used, of course, and may be that is a reason here.

Mind you, I have no idea how OpenSCAD runs, and what those apple libs 
are. But it feels similar, so you have it.

On 2021-11-16 6:03 p.m., Doug Moen wrote:
> There's a thread on the OpenSCAD mailing list talking about a compute-intensive OpenSCAD program that takes 17.5s on an M1 Pro under MacOS, and the same job takes 12s on Ubuntu running in a VM on the same machine.
>
> Interesting that M1+Linux is much faster.
>
> Even though Asahi Linux isn't ready yet, someone is running Arch Linux on an M1 macbook pro.
> https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1458473546225577987
>
> Doug.
>
> On Sat, Nov 6, 2021, at 6:37 PM, Doug Moen wrote:
>> Yes. I'm considering buying a new macbook once Asahi Linux has a
>> working GPU driver. The new thicker, heavier Macbooks with more ports
>> and better repairability have tweaked my interest.
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 6, 2021, at 6:27 PM, Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc wrote:
>>> My developer got a new apple with m1. We ran version of our soft with
>>> scrypt KPDF algorithm in javascript, totally non-optimized. We ran the
>>> x64 version first, and it went like regular linux x64 on x64 processor.
>>> Then we tried m1 version on this m1 chip, and we didn't really notice
>>> that part of the program with the progress bar. Stark difference. My
>>> hope that whole RISC industry will pick lessons from m1.