Interesting, I was mostly thinking about the ARM's own cores, but never _really_ looked into the broader ecosystem.
From my personal experience, Apple chips are fast, but I can't really compare that to anything else. JS benchmarks match desktop performance, but that is not really what I was/am interested in.
I've tried some 'cloud ARM-based metal servers' which promised to have similar performance as intel Atom cpu's basically, but they felt at least 10 times slower. So I gave up on the whole concept.
But I guess the take-away is, those specific systems where slow not so much ARM in general. I mean, it does make sense that there is some scale difference between a Xeon core vs a core meant for mobile use now that I actually think about it ;)
From my personal experience, Apple chips are fast, but I can't really compare that to anything else. JS benchmarks match desktop performance, but that is not really what I was/am interested in. I've tried some 'cloud ARM-based metal servers' which promised to have similar performance as intel Atom cpu's basically, but they felt at least 10 times slower. So I gave up on the whole concept.
But I guess the take-away is, those specific systems where slow not so much ARM in general. I mean, it does make sense that there is some scale difference between a Xeon core vs a core meant for mobile use now that I actually think about it ;)