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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by moralestapia on Monday June 22, 2020 @05:27PM (#23606940)
(Audio/DSP) plugins are a tricky thing, it is not uncommon for some of them to have assembly or processor specific instructions to squeeze out as much performance as possible. Your 'budget' in this domain is limited to only a few milliseconds ...
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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by sroussey on Monday June 22, 2020 @09:02PM (#23608862)
But it does a AOT recompile from x86 to ARM for extensions and plugins according to the second presentation today.
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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by auto on Monday June 22, 2020 @10:57PM (#23609490)
Even if it's precompiled and not at runtime, we don't really know what the performance looks like, especially in hand rolled assembly where something that isn't a one-to-one cycle match could have obvious effects.
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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by diroussel on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @04:57PM (#23620151)
Also, Rosetta 2 doesn't support AVX. So it would rely on there being an alternate code path which would be AOT transpiled.
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