An Apple ISA is coming

Re:An Apple ISA is coming by hexscrews on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:41AM (#10190230)

This seems a bit like click bait. It holds no substantial information. They might as well have summed up the article with, One day, apple will make their own processor. That's all it says.

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Re:An Apple ISA is coming by blazespin on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @05:25AM (#10190500)

To be fair, It says a wee bit more, it says apple has an llvm IR layer and a semantic gap exists with arm -> so it'll be both easier and necessary to create their own ISA layer.

I'd really like to know the details behind the semantic gap, though. That was annoyingly vague and really is the premise of the entire argument.

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Re:An Apple ISA is coming by coldtea on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @05:51AM (#10190555)

Yeah, like "War And Peace" is about Russia in the times of Napoleon, and all "The Art of Computer Programming" says is "here is a bunch of algorithms".

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Re:An Apple ISA is coming by octo_t on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @07:48AM (#10190844)

"One day, apple will make their own processor." -> one day in the past. Apple already make their own processors.

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