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Re:Apple Silicon M1 Chips and Docker by anyfoo on Monday November 16, 2020 @11:20PM (#25120227)
Rosetta 2 purely AOT? Where did you get that idea from?
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Re:Apple Silicon M1 Chips and Docker by jagger27 on Monday November 16, 2020 @11:37PM (#25120302)
It certainly still does some JIT/interpretation at runtime but it does indeed translate the executable upon first launch.^1 I can’t imagine how it would be able to fully translate a browser JavaScript engine that’s doing its own JIT, for example.

1: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/12/rosetta-2-translation-c...

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 Chips and Docker by xenadu02 on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @12:13AM (#25120483)
Just like the original Rosetta it does indeed cache translations as well as support JIT and other forms of dynamic translation.
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Re:Apple Silicon M1 Chips and Docker by anyfoo on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @12:39AM (#25120615)
Exactly. It does AOT, but certainly not exclusively.
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