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You need a faster processor to hide the emulation overhead. Good luck beating Intel by a big enough margin.
by WallWextra 10y ago
You need a faster processor to hide the emulation overhead. Good luck beating Intel by a big enough margin.
- pcwalton 10y agoI'm only claiming that they could survive a transition to native ARM apps, not that emulation would be a long term solution.
- WallWextra 10y agoI guess Apple could 'survive' releasing a new generation of laptops which run slower than the previous ones to facilitate a user-invisible component sourcing decision, but it seems like a bad move.
- pcwalton 10y agoIt'd be temporary and only for third-party apps, not Apple-supplied ones. But yes, I do agree that it's not worth it for them--this is part of what I mean by high fixed costs of switching.