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Re:Apple Silicon M1 Chips and Docker by paxys on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @12:11AM (#25120468)
How do you think people write and compile software for any embedded or other low-powered architecture out there? The vast majority of hardware in use around the world today isn't desktop class, and emulation works just fine for building on those.
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Re:Apple Silicon M1 Chips and Docker by tonyarkles on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @06:38AM (#25122568)
Cross compilers are nowhere near the same as Docker on ARM Mac building x86 Linux containers. The biggest difference: no one expects you to be able to run your MIPS binary on the machine you built it on.

Edit: although sometimes you can through qemu.

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