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Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by cozzyd on Sunday November 29, 2020 @09:36PM (#25250223)
That seems silly. Developer machines rarely have AVX-512 or multiple TB of ram too...
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Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by amluto on Sunday November 29, 2020 @11:09PM (#25250640)
Various people have suggested to Intel that they made a mistake by not selling desktop/workstation chips with AVX-512.
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Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by dragandj on Monday November 30, 2020 @06:09AM (#25252615)
They DO sell desktop chips with AVX-512. I'm writing this from one: i9-9900X.
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Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by cozzyd on Monday November 30, 2020 @11:15PM (#25262242)
They do now. But for a long time they didn't (I think). Or maybe they always did but were unreasonably expensive.
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