Happy New Year; The Strong ARM of Apple

[K.S. Bhaskar]

We at YottaDB would like to wish you a Very Happy New Year for 2026.  We have a short blog post about YottaDB on Ubuntu Linux on Apple Mac Mini M2 pro hardware that you might find interesting: https://yottadb.com/the-strong-arm-of-apple/

Thank you for being part of the YottaDB community.

Regards
- Bhaskar

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[iq100]

You left out the why?  Thank for your what results!
Now post why? Divide the why into hardware and software reasons.

The WORSE Row C and D results, in your table, with more CPUs,  and more/equal RAM, for Intel and AMD?
You did A GREAT half job.  Now at least attempt to figure out the WHY?
Advancing, not documenting is what YottaDB should aspire to?
Good data, if accurate and reproducible, but now do the WHY?

Thank you.
IQ100
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[Mark Sires]

It's hardly the job of a software company to explain why one processor architecture performs better than another.  That is a question that Intel and AMD will have to respond to.

[iq100]

Happy New Year, to you!!

The job of a software company is excellence.  Perhaps the moral imperative of everything?
Optimal algorithms, and their coding, greatly benefit from an understanding of the hardware.
In fact, it may be more the reverse. Hardware architecture arises from the need for algorithm's codings, to run fast.
I trust that is the goal of YottaDB?
Here is but one example:  https://youtu.be/o22BAuQj3ds?t=4882

[K.S. Bhaskar]

I think the WHY is straightforward: Apple makes some extremely fast ARM CPUs. We spend a great deal of effort in optimizing YottaDB - e.g., see https://yottadb.com/critical-section-performance-in-r2-04/ - but ultimately it's up to to hardware designers to make the best CPUs, and it's up to software designers to make the best of their CPUs.

Regards

- Bhaskar

On Tuesday, December 30, 2025 at 9:27:43 PM UTC-5 iq100 wrote: