Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs

Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by looping__lui on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @03:39AM (#23610934)

You are aware that you will (most likely) lose all those pretty amazing optimisations that you tend to rely on if you develop software that is a bit more “sophisticated” (e.g., parallel programming leveraging IPP etc.). Can’t wait to see how fast that translation layer will be for my FFTs that have been super optimised for Intel chips.

I wonder: when I observed 20+% performance loss for high compute intensive scientific tasks Intel vs. AMD because I relied on IPP - how much performance loss will we see for the x86 to Arm?

For your average Text application you may not care about performance loss. But I bet you, that for video, image editing, science etc. you are easily 20+% worse off than before.

So what exactly is the benefit for the customer or the developer community?

So I can play Angry birds on my Mac?

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by imtringued on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @07:29AM (#23612525)

I mostly worry about software that will never receive an update. I'm sure the tools you listed will be ported over to ARM simply because it means vendors can sell them again to the same customer.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by looping__lui on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @08:01AM (#23612737)

Customers do not tend to be willing to pay for updates that “merely ensure compatibility with their new OS” ;-)

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by thejynxed on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @05:19AM (#23625854)

Especially not corporations :)

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