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Its interesting that heterogeneous cores makes spinlocks less efficient. Is the effect on Apple silicon the same as for other ARM cpus?

Off topic:

For some reason this page uses ~200KB of javascript, but I don't understand why there is any JS on this page besides analytics. It also puts up a message if javascript is disable.

> For some reason this page uses ~200KB of javascript, but I don't understand why there is any JS on this page besides analytics. It also puts up a message if javascript is disable.

Menus, at least. They behave consistently with the rest of Apple web properties so I’d assume even with code splitting they’re on every page.

It's interesting, as a complete outsider to apple development, how much the suggestions in that article seem to blur the line between preemptive multitasking and cooperative multitasking.