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by rayiner 2023 days ago
The fancy stuff with the reorder buffer, decoder, and branch prediction is the most important thing. The M1 is just as general purpose as any Intel/AMD CPU, and indeed even more so because it's designed to scale from cell phones to desktops.

Specialization helps when it helps, but doesn't do much on typical programs and M1 still excels on those.