Re:Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast?
by faitswulff on Monday November 30, 2020 @04:35PM
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By the time docker, virtualization, and programming environments are mostly sorted out, there will likely be a successor to the M1 on the market, so while I'm not GP, I do agree with the sentiment in this case. Especially with an ISA change.
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Re:Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast?
by thoughtsimple on Monday November 30, 2020 @10:07PM
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Virtualization and Docker are both well on their way. You can download working VM systems both very simple to the complex with QEmu. A Docker engineer announced on Twitter that he had a early (pre-alpha) version of Docker working on the M1.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/success-virtualize-wind...
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ubuntu-linux-virtualize...
Docker is still super early in development, see the most recent update here: https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/142#issuecomment-73...
I wouldn't expect official stable support to be available very soon. Even then, even if most of the official Docker image library will have ARM support, a ton of community images will need to be ported – all of this will take quite some time.
Re:Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast?
by faitswulff on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @07:14AM
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Not to mention Homebrew and associated packages.