Slim Binaries (1997)

Re:Slim Binaries (1997) by saagarjha on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @12:37PM (#20575855)

> And since each fat binary usually contains only a single code image per supported architecture, rather than separate versions for different implementations of each architecture, fat binaries still do not solve the problem of intra-architectural hardware variation.

  $ lipo -info /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/CoreFoundation
  Architectures in the fat file: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/CoreFoundation are: x86_64 x86_64h

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Re:Slim Binaries (1997) by juliangoldsmith on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @12:49PM (#20575973)

Haswell wasn't quite out yet when the article was written, so that was true at the time.

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Re:Slim Binaries (1997) by saagarjha on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @12:52PM (#20576008)

Yeah, I know. Just pointing out that this is no longer true.

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