Comments | tacit: Apple Silicon and losing our legacy

tacit

Apple Silicon and losing our legacy

Nov 17, 2020 17:20

[Edit] This post sparked a conversation on YcombinatorI am concerned about Apple's move to its own home-grown processors ( Read more... )

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noone cares anonymous November 20 2020, 05:25:08 UTC

noone cares about the esoteric and obsolete

qemu anonymous November 20 2020, 06:03:12 UTC

Or you can make use of an emulator like Qemu that has had x86 on arm emulation for ages.

lproven November 20 2020, 21:45:22 UTC

I thought this was a good piece, so I put it on HackerNews, where it's attracted more discussion than any of my own posts in months.

I thought you might like to know.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25135470

anonymous November 21 2020, 03:52:07 UTC

QEMU isn't that bad. It's slowish but certainly in 2~3 years it will emulate x86-64 OS X on ARM at acceptable speeds.

Emulating PowerPC wasn't that easy, and it's quite trivial nowadays.

Also: Rosetta runs fast because it first translate binaries. It ain't that fast at Just In Time emulation. Also, it only emulates the application binary, not having the overhead of emulating an OS

Why are you blaming capitalism? anonymous November 22 2020, 04:35:44 UTC

Capitalism isn't doing this as it's just an idea. This is just progress. Do you think we should stay with old gas engines just because if we move to electric cars we may not be able to make compatible car parts for older vehicles down the road? The issue has more to do with losing the code that it took to write the programs. If you have that, you could recomple the apps.