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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by oneplane on Monday June 22, 2020 @04:33PM (#23606189)
The question is if those plugins are modules (shared objects/dynamic libraries), or if they are used via some sort of IPC to an external process. (or even an XPC service)
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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by monocasa on Monday June 22, 2020 @04:39PM (#23606277)
They are shared libraries, yes. And rely on lower latency than you would get from an IPC channel to another process.
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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by oneplane on Monday June 22, 2020 @05:01PM (#23606603)
That would make sense. On the other hand, would that go for Audio Units as well? I thought those were XPC based.
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