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No, it won’t imply ARM macOS. It’s obviously a distinct possibility, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they went that way one day. In fact, given release builds up
by trollied 9y ago
No, it won’t imply ARM macOS. It’s obviously a distinct possibility, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they went that way one day. In fact, given release builds uploaded to Apple are basically just an intermediate llvm bitstream, Apple could theoretically release to any architecture.
- astrange 9y agollvm bitcode is a compiler IR and nothing else, it's not architecture-independent. There have been independent bytecodes based on it like PNaCL and SPIR-V, but they're not nearly good enough to run any old app on.