From what I could understand, it's related to how much of your workflow runs over the RAM capacity, at which point the memory gets shuffled off to the SSD, and loaded back when it's needed.
I got the 8GB RAM version, and been mainly using it for Unity + JetBrains Rider, both demanding around 4-6GB by themselves. Doesn't help neither of them are ARM native, I'd imagine. So I'm in big trouble :)
A suggestion until ARM native Rider is available. We have a few 8GB M1s that are used for .net development using Rider and we're using the DataGrip swap hack proposed here and it's working great (was unusable without it):
Huh that's a funny hack, will give it a try, cheers!
I wonder if the GoLand/ PyCharm JBR folders will work, since I already have those and they are both ARM native. It's definitely the UI performance that kills me, have no issues with the other editors on the laptop otherwise. Running Unity in parallel likely doesn't help either, though.
I got the 8GB RAM version, and been mainly using it for Unity + JetBrains Rider, both demanding around 4-6GB by themselves. Doesn't help neither of them are ARM native, I'd imagine. So I'm in big trouble :)