• Number358@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    moving to ARM64 would lose all backwards compatibility.

    Well Apple uses a backwards compatibility layer to help with that, it works pretty well from what I’ve heard, but there is a significant performance loss with this approach.

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      1 year ago

      I have an m1 Mac and the Rosetta 2 layer is insanely performant. There is some performance loss but I’d hardly call it significant. It’s imperceptible to me.