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This is a pretty smart strategy. I'd say the majority of the time when something is slow on my machine, it's because there's a resource intensive background process (that I don't really need to complete quickly) eating up all my system resources. It seems like the same strategy would also make sense on Intel processors, although it probably requires at least 4 cores to make sense?
Intel agrees!
Launching apps takes ages on M1 mini. Reminded me of the good Windows Phone times.
I'm still assuming it's faster due to unified memory architecture, latest generation lithography and less on tailored behavior for their OS. An AMD/Intel using same soldered RAM next to CPU and same process node would give Apple a run for its money. Still, the optimizations on OS side are interesting here.
I thought the "unified memory" meme had been debunked multiple times here.
CPU and GPU and AI share unified memory which means zero copy transfers between them.
This is a pretty smart strategy. I'd say the majority of the time when something is slow on my machine, it's because there's a resource intensive background process (that I don't really need to complete quickly) eating up all my system resources. It seems like the same strategy would also make sense on Intel processors, although it probably requires at least 4 cores to make sense?
You can do it on one processor with a process/thread scheduler. This is what makes multitasking possible in general.
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Strange. With the exception of electron apps (which are slow everywhere), I've found my M1 mini to be extremely responsive. Much moreso than my 16" mpb.
Cold start of Electron, MS office, Affinity (all ARM versions) takes me north of 15". 8GB M1 Mini, so maybe that makes the situation worse.
So, like nice[1], except the developer sets the level of importance ahead of time? Makes sense, as long as I can reprioritize if needed. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_(Unix)
This certainly makes a lot of sense, and it's a brilliant strategy to improve overall performance. But it doesn't account for the full picture either. My M1 Macbook Pro feels about as responsive as my desktop system with an AMD Ryzen 3900X, which is impressive to say the least. It doesn't quite have the raw computing power of the 3900X, but given that it's a portable device that's something else.
It's just doable when you care enough to optimize the OS for responsiveness.
It would be a bit of a hassle to figure out which processes would all need to be changed, and whether these changes persist after rebooting and there's probably a lot more that I didn't think off though..
https://www.windowscentral.com/assign-specific-processor-cor...