[kwlug-disc] m1 RISC silicon: impression

[Jeff Smith]

It seems that even HackaDay is onto you...

https://hackaday.com/2021/11/17/linux-coming-soon-to-m1-macbooks/
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Linux: Coming Soon To M1 Macbooks | Hackaday<https://hackaday.com/2021/11/17/linux-coming-soon-to-m1-macbooks/>
Regardless of the chipset or original intended use of any computer system, someone somewhere is going to want to try and run Linux on it. And why not? Linux is versatile and free to use as well as …
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Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] m1 RISC silicon: impression

That doesn't seem too surprising to me. I have aarch64 Fedora running in UTM on an M1 Mac and it runs very fast. UTM is basically Qemu + Apple's bare metal hypervisor framework, so you'll get almost native speed running an ARM Linux distro. And macOS isn't a very fast or efficient OS compared to Linux in many ways, which may explain the speed boost running OpenSCAD on Linux at close-to-native speed in a VM on macOS.

On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 6:22 PM Doug Moen <doug at moens.org<mailto:doug at moens.org>> 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.
>>
>>
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