[masklinn]

Indeed, the few things I do already know of what the article talks about (very much including the javascript feature of the M1 you outline) are completely wrong, that makes the entire thing extremely suspect.

An other banger:

> Apple also does crazy things like putting a high end GPU (graphics processor) on the same chip.

They’re good but they’re not especially high-end, unless compared to other embedded GPUs like the ones in AMD’s APU, which… are rather comparable overall, and also single-die.

[klelatti]

I find it very frustrating. There are nuggets of interesting and relevant historical info and the central message of 'ISA isn't the most important thing for high end CPUs' is something I'd broadly agree with.

But it's all mixed with factual errors and iffy opinions (the Patterson and Hennessy textbook really isn't 'horrible').