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The article seems to insinuate that everything on the iPad runs under an ARM emulator. It would make more sense that OS version 3.2 running on the iPad is alrea
by fortybillion 17y ago
The article seems to insinuate that everything on the iPad runs under an ARM emulator. It would make more sense that OS version 3.2 running on the iPad is already compiled for the A4 (hence the astonishing speed), and only iPhone-native apps were emulated.
But you're right, it does seem a little crackpot. Couldn't someone decompile an iPad executable and see if it's ARM code or not?
- comex 17y agoIt is. Even the kernel.
- tptacek 17y agoAh, but that doesn't matter, because they're emulating ARM, you see.
- joezydeco 17y agoThe jailbreakers are emulating ARM too? The conspiracy deepens!
- tptacek 17y agoThey could be running the iPhone OS as a hardware-virtualized VM!
- joezydeco 17y ago...and then it's turtles all the way down!
- stcredzero 17y agoYou keep using that phrase. I do not think it means what you think it means.
- joezydeco 17y agoHmm. I just looked through my last 170 days of comments and I found the word "Turtle" exactly once. And it's in this thread. I don't believe I need to explain the joke. +7 kind of hints that some people agree.
- stcredzero 17y agoYou're taking that in a way I didn't mean