Latest iOS and iPadOS 15 Betas Allow Apps to Request Access to More RAM

[I7guy]

I used to run a window pc back in the day for music. Back then you needed a sound card to play audio with any low latency at all. And you needed ASIO drivers. It wasn't great.

I then went to a studio with a powermac G3. I think it had a lower clock speed than the PC. I remember my jaw hit the floor when the engineer hit the piano keyboard and with no latency the piano sound played from the headphone socket of the g3! I couldn't believed it!

It was nothing to do with how good the processor was. It was apple's approach to OS design that prioritised sound.

Apple went on to prove that with lower clock speed processors it could outperform things like android. Mainly because the OS was designed well and prioritised the right things. Or because there SDK in iOS used direct memory management rather than Android which used managed memory and garbage collection.

My point is that relying on the clock speed of the core processor or even the gpu is not as important is correctly coding and optimising your software if you want to see real gains. Developers dont like to admit this because they are in fact lazy (I know, I am one). Optimizing takes time and energy and no one wants to spend time doing it if they dont have to.

I guess we are coming at this from two different angles. Sometimes a bigger engine with more bells gets you there faster. There is only so much optimizing one can do, in some cases, before hardware becomes the bottleneck. Of course both your statement and my statement are to a certain extent strawmans.

As for the iPad, everything from the cheaper iPads upwards to iPad Pro 2021 runs software pretty much the same. Very little real difference simply because dev's would be leaving money on the table. They need to make products for the most amount of machines not the few 2021 models that have been released.

The same can be said for phones from the 6s to the iphone 12. These models run software pretty much the same...except when they don't and you can see and feel a difference due to different hardware. This is where Apple comes in with software that takes advantage of new technology and faster clock speeds. But if we are talking about a run of the mill application, you are correct there probably is not very much difference.

So yeah, lt really is all a bit of a marketing fallacy.
And if the M1 was so radically powerful they wouldn't need to rewrite anything to get the improvements anyway.

What the M1 really signifies is how slow and unoptimised intel really was! As there isn't a big difference between A processors on the iPad with M1.

 

[AutomaticApple]

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Same energy

Oh, the nostalgia!

 

[GuruZac]

That must be it. Your opinion is righteous and valid, and the only reason people might disagree is because they are Apple apologists who will disagree no matter what. It can’t have anything to do with the fact that you keep talking about the M1 like it’s something that magically transforms any circuit into a Mac that must run a desktop OS to be utilized properly.

Thanks for the kind words! 🙌

 

[slyv]

Let us confirm that RAM limit is now unlocked on ipadOS 15! Single app can now use about 12GB of ram on 16GB iPad Pro M1. And it is already supported in Artstudio Pro version 3.2.9+.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1438752423745662978