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		cma on Jan 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max A chips had more relaxed memory ordering that couldn't work well for emulating x64. M chips can toggle the memory ordering guarantees.

nicoburns on Jan 17, 2023 [–]

I mean that's true. But that doesn't prevent comparing performance of natively compiled ARM binaries in A chips vs natively compiled x64 binaries on x64 chips.

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