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Rosetta is definitely not flawless. This type of jit/translation does have limits. Often times people experience different levels of difficulty using Apple Sil

Rosetta is definitely not flawless. This type of jit/translation does have limits. Often times people experience different levels of difficulty using Apple Silicon precisely because my workload is not yours, and yours is different again from OP's So I feel this particular Ask HN is more about wondering how different everyone's workflows are, and how that impacts M1 usage. I envision that workflow options/pathways will start converging into one "way" which is the Apple way. You already are getting shunted into relying purely on Metal for gpu acceleration and you see the various plurality of gpgpu libraries start converging on only the Apple blessed/authorized and optimized version. There are people fighting against this, for example the Linux on Apple Silicon project bringing up the GPU, but it's slow going. Give it another few years, and people will stop using x, y, or z frameworks, and only use whatever API's Apple gives us, because that is the Apple Way. Proceed at your own peril. The future is fast, but there is only one road.

rgovostes 4y ago
I use "flawless" in the sense that I have not seen a single incompatibility or even regression in any of the ordinary macOS software I have used under its translation, which is exactly what it was designed to do. It has surprisingly few documented limitations, like lacking AVX vector instructions: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/about-the-rosetta-translation-environment https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/abou... There are a handful of apps that aren't supported, but few of these are popular apps. Virtualbox is notable, but unsurprising: Rosetta is not designed for x86_64 virtual machines, and Virtualbox doesn't support arm64. (I submitted a correction to the Wine entry, since wine64 has worked under Rosetta 2 for a year.) https://isapplesiliconready.com/for/unsupported https://isapplesiliconready.com/for/unsupported https://liliputing.com/2021/06/wine-6-0-1-lets-you-run-windows-apps-on-apple-silicon.html https://liliputing.com/2021/06/wine-6-0-1-lets-you-run-windo...

rgovostes 4y ago

I use "flawless" in the sense that I have not seen a single incompatibility or even regression in any of the ordinary macOS software I have used under its translation, which is exactly what it was designed to do. It has surprisingly few documented limitations, like lacking AVX vector instructions: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/about-the-rosetta-translation-environment https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/abou... There are a handful of apps that aren't supported, but few of these are popular apps. Virtualbox is notable, but unsurprising: Rosetta is not designed for x86_64 virtual machines, and Virtualbox doesn't support arm64. (I submitted a correction to the Wine entry, since wine64 has worked under Rosetta 2 for a year.) https://isapplesiliconready.com/for/unsupported https://isapplesiliconready.com/for/unsupported https://liliputing.com/2021/06/wine-6-0-1-lets-you-run-windows-apps-on-apple-silicon.html https://liliputing.com/2021/06/wine-6-0-1-lets-you-run-windo...