Those numbers look like they run Intel Chrome on the M1 Mac. The Universal Chrome binary gets close to 300 on an M1 Mac.
Regardless the takeaway that "M1, and very likely the fastest Linux machine you can get right now for single threaded work." is conjecture.
If someone can benchmark chrome on asahi linux it would give us a better comparison.
> Jan 9, 2021
Asahi Linux literally wasn't a thing when I wrote the article.
I fully expect my conclusions from over a year ago, when the M1 first was available and virtualization was rough around the edges, to "not remain accurate."
EDIT: noticed the author's comment saying extensions may lower the performance, so tested again in raw chrome and got 304.