I had thought the same thing at first too, but they were comparing the x86 build running on an M1 against the native build running on an M1. See the machine list in the first screenshot.
I see, for the Mac Studio 2022. But the other two (the Macbook and Mini) are intel native.
What's confusing here is he clearly says "After we had a functioning universal binary, we ran benchmarks and conducted manual tests to see what improved. We ran benchmarks on 3 different Apple Silicon machines, using the same compiled release binary and run settings."
So it's a universal binary. Surely it'd run natively on the Mac Studio. Maybe this was a typo?
> But the other two (the Macbook and Mini) are intel native.
The 2020 Mac Mini is not intel [0]. The 2021 Macbook Pro is also not intel [1].
> So it's a universal binary. Surely it'd run natively in the Mac Studio. Maybe this was a typo?
Yes, the new universal binary can run natively. That's what they are announcing: the new native support. They are comparing the native performance against using rosetta [2] to run the x86 binary (which, in prior versions, was the only option). By using the same binary they are ruling out that it's due to any other performance improvements between versions.
