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Re:ARM Mac: Why I'm Worried About Virtualization by thayne on Thursday June 25, 2020 @01:54PM (#23643497)
> Generic container images like the Ubuntu mentioned usually have aarch64 (arm64) support, so running the x86_64 image makes no sense for the presented use-case.

I think the argument here is you can't build your own docker images that you use in production and run them on your mac without emulation (unless your production workload also runs on ARM).

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Re:ARM Mac: Why I'm Worried About Virtualization by smspf on Thursday June 25, 2020 @02:04PM (#23643613)
That's a fair point. Emulation implies other limitations too - code compiled on your machine might leverage only the CPU features emulated, which would lead to sub-optimal binaries, not to mention much slower builds.
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Re:ARM Mac: Why I'm Worried About Virtualization by flatiron on Thursday June 25, 2020 @04:16PM (#23645139)
If you don’t have an environment between your laptop and prod you got more things wrong than this ARM migration.
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