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> Apple have proven they can change architecture on a whim now. They might have made it look easy, but switching architectures is still a huge engineering effo
by jl6 5y ago
> Apple have proven they can change architecture on a whim now.
They might have made it look easy, but switching architectures is still a huge engineering effort which would have taken many, many years of planning and problem solving.
(I'm actually more impressed at how they in-place-migrated every iDevice (like, a billion of them?) to the new APFS filesystem without any hassle to the end user).
- snicker7 5y agoApple operates at a volume where investing thousands of person-years for small performance/revenue gains is worthwhile.