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True, but I believe graviton is still not like M1. Do they support i386 / backward compatible?
by the_arun 6y ago
True, but I believe graviton is still not like M1. Do they support i386 / backward compatible?
- heavyset_go 6y agoM1 is not i386 compatible. macOS uses a translation layer through Rosetta 2 for x86 compatibility.
- mbell 6y agoSorta - There is translation layer in software but the reason the M1 is so fast at executing x86 code is that it has hardware support for switching to the x86 memory model. This is something no other ARM processor I'm aware of has.
- singhrac 6y agoIs this true? I didn't see this detail anywhere I looked. If you have a source that would be interesting.
- sjs382 6y agoIt was previously discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25233554 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25233554 but I can't find the primary source linked anywhere.
- mr_toad 6y ago> Do they support i386 No. But for many use cases that’s not a big deal, since you’re likely to be running Linux & other open source software that already has ARM versions or can be recompiled.