[tlamponi]

So seems a good part of the speed-up comes from using the Linux kernel, which tbh. doesn't really surprise me. It's hard to match the engineering amount and quality getting poured into it (well at least the core stuff, some niche driver will be a mess like everywhere). The remainder then comes from modern x86_64/amd64 CPU combined with DDR5 beating the M2, well at least in this micro benchmark.