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[–] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I see, I don't use docker all that much on my works Mac. So haven't noticed the speed.

Also is it the storage share that's slow? As docker desktop is a VM

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

well docker on mac is a fully emulated x86 vm. everything is slow.

[–] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Looking at the docs, I think the current docker desktop is native arm. QEMU is now deprecated

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 2 days ago
[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

~~It's not that slow. https://www.imore.com/tests-show-apples-m1-emulates-x86-faster-intel-can-run-it-natively~~

Edit: actually I just benchmarked it and containerized x86 Linux runs at like 40% of native speed. So yeah, that's pretty freakin slow.

FWIW arm64 containers ran at nearly native speed, so it's the x86 emulation that seems to be causing the slowdown.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 2 days ago

yeah last i worked with it i was the first person in the company to evaluate the arm macs, and it basically couldn't run our application at all. took a full 40 minutes to spin up, then crashed.

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's only if you're running an x86 container right? It should be native with an ARM64 one.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 2 days ago

yeah. last i had a mac there were no arm containers though.