Because the G5, while awesome in performance, would have needed a giant enclosure for all the heat IBM didn't care about.
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Chrome for M1 Macs Runs Up to 80% Faster Than Rosetta 2 Version
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Very impressive, but my interest does get piqued until they show difference in productivity apps I use. Photoshop, Excel and Word. Well, Words speed improvements wouldn't matter much since I can only type so fast. Browsers improvement does mean much to me since I don't have a slow 25Mbps connection.
Basically, I want to see yuge improvements in PS and XL before I consider losing Linux/Windows virtualization.
Basically, I want to see yuge improvements in PS and XL before I consider losing Linux/Windows virtualization.
Yeah we were never going to get the PowerBook G5. Sad.
I had a G5 iMac and the first intel iMac. The G5 was a beast of a machine, I reckon it was faster than the intel that replaced it. It was also easy to open up and fix things, even for amateurs, whereas the internals of the intel iMac were an absolute nightmare. That said, the fans needed to cool the G5 sounded like you were running a jet engine and the intel iMac was practically silent in comparison. Almost ironic when you compare M1 with intel.
Another example of the circle of life.
So... that means you can now have, what, three Chrome tabs open before it spins up the fans now?
I’m able to get safari 14 on Catalina, but maybe that’s just because it was released separately from (and earlier than) Big Sur. I’m holding off for comparability reasons in work though.
What about the comparison with the Ryzen?
D'oh. Standalone Safari updates, I don't remember that!
But now I remember the issue with Safari, they killed uBlock Origin in the new versions. Now I have to use AdGuard, which isn't as good.
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Apple couldn't make their own CPUs back then. The M1 comes after years of iterating on iPhone performance.
https://support.apple.com/downloads/safari. I'm confused, why can't you download directly?
I had a very difficult time reading this...
Or maybe google finally got it right for the M1, and is not there yet on x86?I'd say it's the other way round.
Given that Rosetta2 does not translate at run time and is known to be relative good at replacing x86 code with the same functionality in ARM/-Silicon as shown by Geekbench just going native would give you only 20-40%.
So what did happen here is that the binary is optimized for the M1 and the only question is wether that was done by hand or just compiler-magic (I'd put my money on the later).
As such improvements will be all over the place depending how good a fit the task at hand is for features offered by the CPU(SoC).
Something that just does lots of branchy single thread integer code might still be faster on Intel, while ML code that used to run on the CPU will be magnitudes faster running on the dedicated ML-cores.
https://support.apple.com/downloads/safari. I'm confused, why can't you download directly?
I use safari technology preview mostly. It updates under preferences update, but I used to just go to download page and download it myself. I notice Safari also has downloads available. Old fashioned, maybe ,but it works
No, that's only true for this particular use case. Javascript is interpreted, so it's being compiled twice - once by the rosetta'd V8, then they V8 output is being rosetta2'd.
The benchmarks in the article include a Ryzen (Windows on Intel) benchmark. The Ryzen results barely beat the Rosetta on M1 results and lagged well behind the native M1 results. So it does not appear that JIT is a significant factor.
