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they will never know the raw power of x86/x64 architecture and are limited to the mere throughput of an arm processor.


ISA doesn't determine speed (and not every workload is CPU-bound). In fact ARM, being RISC, would probably outperform x86 if you looked at a hardware+software stack that wasn't tuned for battery life above all else like Android is. For example, Apple Silicon Macs and Microsoft's upcoming Snapdragon laptops.


I never said speed. I said power, as in voltage




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