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Rosetta performance is best in class to my knowledge, although they had the benefit of being able to add custom instructions and modes to the cpu to make some p

Rosetta performance is best in class to my knowledge, although they had the benefit of being able to add custom instructions and modes to the cpu to make some parts easier. Meaning Rosetta would not have helped valve unless they built the frame on apple silicon. As for not improving, it is likely that Apple no longer feels the need to invest in Rosetta improvements now that Apple silicon is so dominant and software support is already very strong, but nothing is stopping them from investing in it if they need it for example for gaming

scotty79 11mo ago
Rosetta is abandonware: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/about-the-rosetta-translation-environment https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/abou... Why would a company on its way to the moon, entrust such an important project as translation layer between two major architectures to a single rinky-dinky corp that got rich selling common electronics marketed as luxury fluff, that's on the decline and has head so far stuck up its butt that it thinks it can do whatever it wants, instead of just write it themselves with support of the global developer community? Apple could never do games because there are no luxury games. That's completely out of their zone of comprehensibility.
- dontlaugh 11mo ago
  I don’t know if the two companies have such different futures. The games industry as a whole is in potentially terminal decline, have you seen all of the redundancies lately?
  - kokada 11mo ago
    The AAA games industry with their multi-million budgets and "being too big to fail" mentality is on decline. It seems that anything that is not a new Call of Duty is considered not worth by the industry. But smaller games and indie studios are thriving. We got lots of very interesting indie games this year.
    - dontlaugh 11mo ago
      Games take years to make, as a consumer you’re seeing results from the past. Most indie studios are doing poorly, I know several that have closed and many friends looking for work.
- cultofmetatron 11mo ago
  > got rich selling common electronics marketed as luxury fluff Apple products have pretty good build quality and perf per watt that more than justifies the premium. AS far as I can tell, the only payer in the market thats even trying to compete with apple on quality in the laptop space is framework. But Framework can't make their own chips.

scotty79 11mo ago

Rosetta is abandonware: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/about-the-rosetta-translation-environment https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/abou... Why would a company on its way to the moon, entrust such an important project as translation layer between two major architectures to a single rinky-dinky corp that got rich selling common electronics marketed as luxury fluff, that's on the decline and has head so far stuck up its butt that it thinks it can do whatever it wants, instead of just write it themselves with support of the global developer community? Apple could never do games because there are no luxury games. That's completely out of their zone of comprehensibility.

dontlaugh 11mo ago
I don’t know if the two companies have such different futures. The games industry as a whole is in potentially terminal decline, have you seen all of the redundancies lately?
- kokada 11mo ago
  The AAA games industry with their multi-million budgets and "being too big to fail" mentality is on decline. It seems that anything that is not a new Call of Duty is considered not worth by the industry. But smaller games and indie studios are thriving. We got lots of very interesting indie games this year.
  - dontlaugh 11mo ago
    Games take years to make, as a consumer you’re seeing results from the past. Most indie studios are doing poorly, I know several that have closed and many friends looking for work.
cultofmetatron 11mo ago
> got rich selling common electronics marketed as luxury fluff Apple products have pretty good build quality and perf per watt that more than justifies the premium. AS far as I can tell, the only payer in the market thats even trying to compete with apple on quality in the laptop space is framework. But Framework can't make their own chips.