I'm surprised the performance stats weren't more dramatic. Is the compilation not taking advantage of multiple cores? Or for this task is the m1 really do comparable to an Intel 3rd gen cpu?

Exactly. You'll note the author didn't test against, say, a modern intel or ryzen system. My guess is that he'd get similarly lackluster results, probably because the makefiles are ass.

...but that would deflate his ragebait post.

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