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Just a quick note to describe what some others had already found before. I was running a compiler (the Nordic Semi Chip Compiler) under docker. The docker image is available only for x86_64/amd64 architecture, which was fine while I was giving it all a first spin. However when I started to do more and more compilations, I started to get frustrated by the compilation times, and I was wondering how much could be saved by using an arm64 docker image.

Last week I got my new Apple Silicon Macbook Pro M1. I was very excited to do some very simple tests to see how fast python could calculate the Morton Code for a 3D case. I need this for a small project I’m working on, and I found out in a previous iteration that this is taking quite some CPU time. My previous MacBook is a 13" with 2.7GHz Quad Core i7 — the top of the 13" line in 2019; the promises out there suggest that the M1 should be faster. Let’s see.