Re: Still a lot of work to be done porting, but Rosetta 2 is picking up the slack
Don't forget that Apple reserves something like 20% of RAM for compressed memory. This works well when apps have large amounts of idle memory, but it causes performance draining page faults for data crunching apps where all the memory is active. Figure there's less than 10 GB of full speed RAM left after the OS, hardware, and swap cache take their cut from a 16 GB system. An 8 GB model might have under 4GB of the good stuff.
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