18 Sep
2021
18 Sep
'21
12:07 a.m.
On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 10:51:38AM -0700, Jon Steinhart wrote:
So my question on many of these processors is, has
anybody
given any thought to system architecture? Most likely all
of us have had to suffer with some piece of spiffy hardware
that was pretty much unprogrammable. Do the performance
numbers mean anything if they can't be achieved in an actual
system configuration?
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.