For JS: https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/1049082262854094848
It looks like it's not exclusive to Apple's CPU, it's the specific instruction features in ARM 8.3 ISA that makes JS faster.
Added here: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=184023
> Any modern x86 CPU can do accelerated AES just as fast as any ARM with hardware crypto support.
Right but back then, Intel mobile chips weren't that fast. I had MBP with Filevault that took a massive hit and I had to turn it off to get back disk performance. I can't prove that T2 is the reason the encryption doesn't take any hit on T2 Macs, all I can see from my trial of rMBP 16, there was zero performance hit with it on or off.