It's a shame we have a headline proudly announcing that the M1 is 2x faster, when the reality is it's about 8% faster when doing a similar real world test for longer.

What's also hugely impressive is that under better cooling conditions, it's also 25% faster.

None of these numbers capture headlines like 2x sadly, but that's still massively impressive.

For those without context, WebKit apparently takes 30+ minutes to compile, as of (2018) Intel:

https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2018/02/17/on-compiling-w...