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> recompiling their flagship products Do people really think it's just a matter of "recompiling" their software? Autodesk, Photoshop, etc. have decades of cod
by VWWHFSfQ 6y ago
> recompiling their flagship products
Do people really think it's just a matter of "recompiling" their software? Autodesk, Photoshop, etc. have decades of code that has been hand-optimized for x86 ASM. They're not just going to "recompile" the code to run on Apple's ARM chips. At best they're going to ship something that runs in a dog-slow virtualization layer.
- tpetry 6y agoVery often you have a basic c implementation for every asm optimized code block. So in this case they simply ditch all the implementations and compile to arm the c implementation and will start adding arm optimizations.