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Re:Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 3900X vs. Intel I9 in Software Develop... by heavyset_go on Monday December 14, 2020 @12:51PM (#25420661)
M1 is not i386 compatible. macOS uses a translation layer through Rosetta 2 for x86 compatibility.
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Re:Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 3900X vs. Intel I9 in Software Develop... by mbell on Monday December 14, 2020 @12:58PM (#25420769)
Sorta - There is translation layer in software but the reason the M1 is so fast at executing x86 code is that it has hardware support for switching to the x86 memory model. This is something no other ARM processor I'm aware of has.
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Re:Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 3900X vs. Intel I9 in Software Develop... by singhrac on Monday December 14, 2020 @01:20PM (#25421094)
Is this true? I didn't see this detail anywhere I looked. If you have a source that would be interesting.
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Re:Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 3900X vs. Intel I9 in Software Develop... by sjs382 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @12:41AM (#25427389)
It was previously discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25233554 but I can't find the primary source linked anywhere.
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