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Re:Apple Plans Combined iPhone, iPad and Mac Apps to Create ... by trollied on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @02:21PM (#15972818)
No, it won’t imply ARM macOS. It’s obviously a distinct possibility, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they went that way one day. In fact, given release builds uploaded to Apple are basically just an intermediate llvm bitstream, Apple could theoretically release to any architecture.
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Re:Apple Plans Combined iPhone, iPad and Mac Apps to Create ... by astrange on Thursday December 21, 2017 @03:17AM (#15977280)
llvm bitcode is a compiler IR and nothing else, it's not architecture-independent. There have been independent bytecodes based on it like PNaCL and SPIR-V, but they're not nearly good enough to run any old app on.
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