Hector Martin

I think this is a good example of what I've been saying all along: that the M1 is a great chip which is competitive with Intel and excels at many things, but that it all depends on the specific software.

I expect things will improve over time, but before moving your workflow to M1 Macs, *test* whatever it is you're doing. Still looking forward to doing my own tests under Linux, especially at low buffer sizes :-)

I suspect that the difference in memory size between the Macs affected the result. The author used reverb effects that might consume a large amount of memory. Still looking forward to an additional comparison with the same memory size.

I can't imagine a single DSP reason for a reverb plugin to need more than a few megabytes of RAM at most.

Honestly I'm not confident of my inference though :P but at least the Intel Mac in the article has 4x bigger memory than the M1 Mac and it might result a difference other than the difference of computational capacity. (BTW I started to donate Asahi Linux last month. Keep it up!)

I want the author to show more values like a graph of memory consumption and CPU % etc.

I agree that it would be nice to confirm, but I thought about this and concluded that a reverb plugin shouldn't be eating RAM. i.e. if it is that would be a giant bug, but I don't think the fabfilter guys are that terrible at plugin dev ;)