> Can you explain then, how come switching from Intel MBP to Apple Silicon MBP feels like literally everything is 3x faster, the laptop barely heats up at peak load, and you never hear the fans? Going back to my Intel MBP is like going back to stone age computing.

My understanding of it is that Apple Silicon's very very long instruction pipeline plays well with how the software stack in MacOS is written and compiled first and foremost.

Similarly that the same applications take less RAM in MacOS than even in Linux often even because at the OS level stuff like garbage collection are better integrated.