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The argument isn't "same instruction set". The argument is "same development & deployment environment", by the logic of which the Apple argument fails because n
by pritambaral 8y ago
The argument isn't "same instruction set". The argument is "same development & deployment environment", by the logic of which the Apple argument fails because not many people deploy to Apple servers.
- comex 8y agoSo you run a Linux VM, just as lots of Mac-using developers do today. But the instruction set of the VM has to match the instruction set of the host, unless you’re in the mood for slow emulation.
- pritambaral 8y ago> So you run a Linux VM, just as lots of Mac-using developers do today I hear far more make do with just homebrew. > unless you’re in the mood for slow emulation I run an embedded OS (made for a quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 board) on both Real Hardware and on my ThinkPad (via systemd-nspawn & qemu-arm). I found (and confirmed via benchmarks) the latter to be much faster than the former — across all three of compute, memory, and disk access.