Why is Rails boot so slow on macOS?

I recently switch from 2019 intel MBP to an M4 Pro and was shocked at the (lack of) performance. Started looking around and came across this thread and wondering if these results match up with what others are seeing? On the MacBook

Running benchmark on 1 core
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List View (json): 47.595 (±27.0%) op/s
Topic Create: 33.799 (±9.6%) op/s
Post Spec: 12.406 (±0.4%) seconds
PBKdf2 64000 sha256: 75.622 (±3.6%) op/s
Cook README.md: 275.209 (±19.7%) op/s
Discourse Boot: 1.673 (±1.7%) seconds
Random Read: 42.583 (±71.5%) op/s

Running benchmark on 14 cores
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List View (json): 334.326 (±74.3%) op/s
PBKdf2 64000 sha256: 771.567 (±19.1%) op/s
Cook README.md: 2229.99 (±42.4%) op/s
Discourse Boot: 0.523 (±1.3%) seconds
Random Read: 3404.206 (±95.3%) op/s


System Info
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architecture: arm64
kernelversion: 24.3.0
memorysize: 48.00 GiB
operatingsystem: Darwin
physicalprocessorcount: 14
processor0: Apple M4 Pro
virtual: physical
cores: 14
ruby: 3.3.1
pg_ctl (PostgreSQL) 17.4 (Postgres.app)
Redis server v=7.2.7 sha=00000000:0 malloc=libc bits=64 build=7f24f11dd7e42c58
ruby: no shim

./bench  677.90s user 596.17s system 446% cpu 4:45.15 total

On an Ubuntu vm on the MacBook

Running benchmark on 1 core
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List View (json): 84.387 (±20.5%) op/s
WARNING: V8 isolate was interrupted by Ruby, it can not be disposed and memory will not be reclaimed till the Ruby process exits.
Topic Create: 20.435 (±23.5%) op/s
Post Spec: 9.832 (±1.7%) seconds
PBKdf2 64000 sha256: 109.35 (±1.9%) op/s
Cook README.md: 319.527 (±17.3%) op/s
Discourse Boot: 0.845 (±1.6%) seconds
Random Read: 23678.584 (±70.1%) op/s

Running benchmark on 14 cores
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List View (json): 387.653 (±67.2%) op/s
PBKdf2 64000 sha256: 1104.391 (±20.9%) op/s
Cook README.md: 2116.882 (±44.8%) op/s
Discourse Boot: 0.1 (±3.0%) seconds
Random Read: 212496.243 (±270.0%) op/s


System Info
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architecture: aarch64
kernelversion: 6.13.7
memorysize: 15.66 GiB
operatingsystem: Ubuntu
physicalprocessorcount: 1
virtual: physical
cores: 14
ruby: 3.3.1
pg_ctl (PostgreSQL) 16.8 (Ubuntu 16.8-0ubuntu0.24.04.1)
Redis server v=7.0.15 sha=00000000:0 malloc=jemalloc-5.3.0 bits=64 build=3ec7bf4ec5bfafb8
ruby: no shim

./bench  894.11s user 139.08s system 555% cpu 3:06.15 total