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Re:I love ARM by saagarjha on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @11:38AM (#23987849)
Xcode doesn’t emulate anything, it runs the entire iOS userspace as native processes on top of the macOS kernel.
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Re:I love ARM by richardwhiuk on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @12:39PM (#23988705)
It "emulates" the hardware - e.g. you can inject shake / GPS / etc

This is the same as the Android x86 "emulator".

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Re:I love ARM by saagarjha on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @12:42PM (#23988750)
IIRC the Android uses hardware-assisted virtualization through Intel HAXM. iOS simulator is run entirely in userspace in a seperate launchd context.

(Mostly referring to the actual processor/OS itself; buttons that "vibrate" the phone are not really technically interesting to me.)

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