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This seems like GPT-3 generated content or something. Or maybe just some notes written in a vaguely prose-like manner. No real content either way.

It’s a summary, or maybe you could call it a collection of technical notes about the M1 chip and what runs on it. As for not having real content, I would would be surprised if there wasn’t something new for you there–you might want to give it another read.

I think you are right. It has that GPT-3 feel, in my opinion, because there is no central thesis. Either way, how does a site like hackernews filter out spam like this?

Not sure why this bubbled up here. It did have one interesting tidbit I've not seen before regarding extensions to ARM:

- "WKdm compression/decompression instructions, those are used as part of the virtual memory subsystem for fast memory compression, reducing RAM requirements."

I'm utterly fascinated by memory performance on the M1. On the one hand, every time I turn around someone has a different explanation for why it seems so much better than it's Mac Intel counterparts. (And every time 15 people rush in to explain that "no isn't any better") Here is yet another.

Not sure what the deal is, but after picking up a MBA with only 8GB for my wife, I've been quite pleasantly surprised. Memory issues seem to be almost non-existent. Even when running Xcode which tends to bog on my 16" MacBook Pro.

>Apple Silicon Macs are general-purpose computers running macOS out of the box, with Apple not providing official support for 3rd-party operating systems.

Which OS vendor provides "official support for 3rd-party operating systems" on their hardware (or on OEM machines but with some kind of support from said OS)?

WSL is not "3rd-party operating systems" running on the machine - it's a layer running within the host OS itself. Of that we have had several similar examples, e.g. FreeBSD supporting Linux ABIs, etc.

(The only exception seems to be Apple itself, with Bootcamp)

the title seems click-bait towards someone's (or something's) derived notes. how did this make the front page, i find myself wondering.

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