[TUHS] ATC/OSDI'21 joint keynote: It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware (Timothy Roscoe)

[Derek Fawcus]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 11:07:10AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> 
> Apple, much to my surprise, has been thinking about this stuff.
> The M1 is one of the better thought out chips in a long time.

> I especially liked the idea of slow (and low battery draw)
> processors for some apps, and fast ones for apps that need
> fast.  It's an obvious idea in retrospect but I hadn't thought
> to do it that way.  Clever.

I'd suggest that is not Apple, but ARM.  That was sort of the whole
point of their BIG.little architecture with performance and efficiency
cores.

DF