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Rosetta 2 is beautiful - I would love it if they kept it as a feature for the long term rather than deprecating it and removing it in the next release of macOS
by musicale 4y ago
Rosetta 2 is beautiful - I would love it if they kept it as a feature for the long term rather than deprecating it and removing it in the next release of macOS (basically what they did during previous architectural transitions.)
If Apple does drop it, maybe they could open source it so it could live on in Linux and BSD at least. ;-)
Adding a couple of features to ARM to drastically improve translated x86 code execution sounds like a decent idea - and one that could potentially enable better x86 app performance on ARM Windows as well. I don't know the silicon cost but I'd hope it wasn't dropped in the future.'
Thinking a bit larger, I'd also like to see Apple add something like CHERI support to Apple Silicon and macOS to enable efficient memory error checking in hardware. I'd be surprised if they weren't working on something like this already.