Name: Anonymous 2021-04-05 21:52
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For a few months, those who will buy M1 machines will enjoy great responsiveness and blazing start-up time. Some once bloated applications will again behave like most tools should. But soon these metrics will start to degrade. Responsiveness and start-up time will progressively revert to what they used to be and old "non-M1" machines will become even slower than they used to.
For every cycle a hardware engineer saves, a software engineer will add two instructions[3].
My most vivid recollection of this issue is from 2008 when I replaced my HDDs with SSDs. It was such a life changer that I wrote about it so the five people who read my blog could also change their lives[4]. Photoshop started within one second. XCode booted instantaneously. It was glorious.
Ten years later, a M.2 NVMe with a Ryzen 5 2600 takes 13 seconds to boot Photoshop. And I no longer use XCode.
For a few months, those who will buy M1 machines will enjoy great responsiveness and blazing start-up time. Some once bloated applications will again behave like most tools should. But soon these metrics will start to degrade. Responsiveness and start-up time will progressively revert to what they used to be and old "non-M1" machines will become even slower than they used to.
For every cycle a hardware engineer saves, a software engineer will add two instructions[3].
My most vivid recollection of this issue is from 2008 when I replaced my HDDs with SSDs. It was such a life changer that I wrote about it so the five people who read my blog could also change their lives[4]. Photoshop started within one second. XCode booted instantaneously. It was glorious.
Ten years later, a M.2 NVMe with a Ryzen 5 2600 takes 13 seconds to boot Photoshop. And I no longer use XCode.