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Yes Apple has mastered multi-targeting. Apple has completed MANY major transitions 68k -> PPC -> Mac OS X -> Intel -> a near perfect 64bit transition. Then th
by leejoramo 6y ago
Yes Apple has mastered multi-targeting. Apple has completed MANY major transitions 68k -> PPC -> Mac OS X -> Intel -> a near perfect 64bit transition.
Then there is the NeXT side that ran on 68k, x86, PA-RISC, and SPARC
Of course OS X was the foundation to iOS
I think the forced death of 32bit apps last year entirely in preparation for moving to ARM.
- solarkraft 6y ago> I think the forced death of 32bit apps last year entirely in preparation for moving to ARM You probably mean this is so they're not in multiple transitions at once. Something to note here is that Microsoft's x86 emulation only works for 32 bit apps (a processor limitation?), but with Apple having more control over their chips (and no knowledge about the exact issue) I could imagine them having it solved.
- leejoramo 6y agoNo, what I have heard from a Mac developer friend is that Apple's Xcode tool chain is likely able cross-compline x86-64 applications to ARM with relative ease. By forcing developers to move to 64bit last year, much of the work will already be done for the ARM transition. (Of course, there are always difficult cases that will take lots of work)