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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by vetinari on Monday April 02, 2018 @02:29PM (#16737616)
> Microsoft has some magics for executing x86_64 binaries on aarch64 with good performance,

No, they have tech for executing i686 binaries on aarch64, not x86_64. Big difference.

Meanwhile, High Sierra is the last macOS release to support 32-bit binaries.

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by saagarjha on Monday April 02, 2018 @03:58PM (#16738663)
> High Sierra is the last macOS release to support 32-bit binaries

"Without compromise". We'll see what this means later, but most likely it'll mean that macOS won't ship with a 32-bit runtime and you'll be able to download as you do with Java.

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