I was until I tried doing the test myself. It takes 82 seconds to compile on my i5-4200M.

I'm not sure this test is deserving of the breathless headline and commentary, especially since the original tweeter later follows up with:

> Extra info: The M1 macbooks (air/pro) can't drive 2 external screens, and the air throttles a bit after 3+ minutes sustained compute (20-30%)

https://twitter.com/rikarends/status/1328753176552632321

I'll be more interested if the M1 can compile something 2x quicker than the i9 when the compile time on the M1 exceeds 30-60 minutes rather than being less than a minute.

EDIT: to be clear, I expect the M1 to feel faster than the i9 for the vast majority of users, however the headline is "in a real world Rust compile", implying that this is a more valid test than synthetic benchmarks. I take issue with that, as I don't really consider something that compiles in less than 2 minutes on 6 year old hardware to be a much more useful test than the benchmarks.

We already know the A-series of chips performs incredibly in short workloads. We have no information yet on how it performs under sustained workloads.