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0 pointsalganet1y ago0 comments

"efficient for everything": that is a bold claim, can you elaborate more on it?

Also, can you name these other platforms?

Also, can you back up the information about most users not leveraging Rosetta?

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astrange1y ago· 2 in thread

> "efficient for everything": that is a bold claim, can you elaborate more on it?

https://share.transistor.fm/s/124f8bc4

> Also, can you name these other platforms?

Fujitsu A64FX, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Denver

> Also, can you back up the information about most users not leveraging Rosetta?

Well I couldn't tell you that, but most people just use web browsers.

alganetOP1y ago

Sorry, I'm not gonna hear some podcast PR by Apple. I heard their PR already.

If most people just use web browsers, why so much effort has been put on Rosetta 2? Sounds very wasteful.

Also, A64FX seems to agree with my statement that an ARM with some x86 spice makes a better product than just an ARM.

And, if we're talking about making ARM mainstream, Raspberry Pi did more for the platform than Apple and deserves to get the good reputation.

astrange1y ago

Dunno, who says a lot of effort was put into Rosetta 2?

It's mostly something that was needed in the first few years so you could run Chrome and Photoshop, but those have been ported now. It's mostly useful for running WINE but that's not super common outside games.

That said, a binary recompiler has a lot of uses once you have one: https://valgrind.org

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