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		stanley on Feb 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ARM Macs are coming, three years after Apple’s att... How would that work in practice?

plorkyeran on Feb 28, 2020 [–]

Fat binaries with slices for each architecture, much as was done for 32+64 bit x86 and is still done for iOS. Porting x86-only code to arm can sometimes be a lot of work, but supporting both x86 and arm at the same time isn't any more work.

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