I've been expecting this for awhile. At the LLVM developer's conference in November, there were tons of compiler engineers working on the ARM backend, but I di

I've been expecting this for awhile. At the LLVM developer's conference in November, there were tons of compiler engineers working on the ARM backend, but I didn't meet anybody working on the x86 backend. Granted, iOS is important and runs ARM exclusively, but I would've expected more love for the x86 backend given how important the laptop segment is for Apple. It made it seem like x86 was not of long-term importance for Apple.