18 Sep
2021
18 Sep
'21
3:03 a.m.
On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 11:07:10AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
Apple, much to my surprise, has been thinking about this stuff.
The M1 is one of the better thought out chips in a long time.
I especially liked the idea of slow (and low battery
draw)
processors for some apps, and fast ones for apps that need
fast. It's an obvious idea in retrospect but I hadn't thought
to do it that way. Clever.
I'd suggest that is not Apple, but ARM. That was sort of the whole
point of their BIG.little architecture with performance and efficiency
cores.
DF