I have a project that won’t compile on systems with less than 32 GiB of RAM, and I refuse to refactor the hideously overgrown C++ template magic that landed me here.
The most vocal and visible (and rich) ones have Macbook's though, i guess that's where the idea comes from.
So currently the majority of responding dev use a POSIX (mostly)-compliant operating system. That is actual food for thought.
Sources: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018#technology-_-... https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-... https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-de...
Build code in Xcode up to 2.8x faster.
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Compile four times as much code on a single charge, thanks to the game-changing performance per watt of the M1 chip.
I have a hunch it will be adequate for single-threaded tasks and the real gains will come for multithreaded compilation, since its superior thermals should enable it to run all cores at full blast for longer periods of time without throttling, relative to the intel silicon it replaces.