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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by throwaway5792 on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @02:33AM (#23610531)
Those should have AArch64 versions written. AArch64 is old now, it's not some niche architecture.
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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by wolf550e on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @08:41AM (#23613076)
Desktop productivity content creation apps have never before needed ARM versions, so many probably don't have ARM specific optimizations, and some probably have x86 specific code that is just enabled by default.

The memory model differences are going to be painful to debug, I think ("all-the-world's-a-VAX syndrome" is now "all the world's a Pentium/x86-64").

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