According to 9to5Mac the incoming M4 chip will boast impressive performance: around 14500 in multi-core. Too bad that Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite which is already roaming around beats it with 15600 ¹.

I bet that Snapdragon based laptop will have much more memory and cost a lot less having a far, far higher performance per dollar/euro that the M4.

Plus then Snapdragon is already actively and first-handely support Linux and free-as-in-freedom software.

I can’t wait to get one

Keep an eye on those, you may soon want to buy on of their laptops with Linux preinstalled!

These 9 companies are building Snapdragon X Elite Windows PCs | Windows Central

Qualcomm wasn’t kidding about having many PC makers on board with its new powerhouse mobile processor, dubbed Oryon.

Those companies include:

• Acer
• ASUS
• Dell
• HP
• HONOR
• Lenovo
• Microsoft Surface
• Samsung
• Xiaomi

I have overestimated the capabilities of my Inforce 6410. To be truly honest I knew that most ARM boards and the OSes running on it are 32bit and this includes Raspberries, but

“everyone knows that 4Gb of address space is enough for everything”

me, now, mocking the famous “640Kb ought to be enough for anybody. ” misattributed to Bill Gates

Ok, ok. Actually I have understimated the requirements of mongodb which – I shall admit – already warned me ominously that 32bit may be a problem.

Oh, my! I would have never guessed that I would have hit the limit. Well, I filled mongodb with 1,8Gb of crypto-trade data. Ok, not a small base of data I shall admit, but far from the addressing limit of 4Gb. This log entry tought scared me a little:

2017-07-03T15:05:22.897+0200 [conn135] ERROR: mmap private failed with out of memory. You are using a 32-bit build and probably need to upgrade to 64
2017-07-03T15:05:22.898+0200 [conn135] Assertion: 13636:file /mnt/cartoni/mongodb/zenbot4.3 open/create failed in createPrivateMap (look in log for more information)

I should have remembered that 32 bit kernels usually leave only 2Gb of addressing space for user-land programs.

I think I will end up using a good old x64. More power hungry, I know, but at least I won’t hit such limits.

All in all I launched only 5 paper-trading zenbots to compare various trading strategies.