Apple M1 foreshadows Rise of RISC-V

Re:Apple M1 foreshadows Rise of RISC-V by sitkack on Sunday December 20, 2020 @12:08PM (#25487698)

Binary size is a small percentage of the overall asset bundle.

Docker also supports multiarch images.

Given how easy it is to JIT or BT RISC ISAs, the future is good for binary portability.

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Re:Apple M1 foreshadows Rise of RISC-V by mbreese on Sunday December 20, 2020 @02:15PM (#25488754)

I’m thinking of all of the small utilities and small command line programs that make up a stock Linux distro. Those don’t have many resources other than the binaries. Sure, the size of each is not much in absolute scale, but combined, you have a pretty significant increase if they were all fat binaries.

That said, I don’t know what Apple does. For example, in the main download for Big Sur, is (for example) zsh a universal binary, or are there a specific x86/M1 downloads. I haven’t looked.

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Re:Apple M1 foreshadows Rise of RISC-V by musicale on Sunday December 20, 2020 @03:33PM (#25489284)

Looking at /usr/bin, /usr/lib/ etc. it's not quite as big as I expected. Going fat might be feasible, especially considering how large storage is at this point.

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Re:Apple M1 foreshadows Rise of RISC-V by sitkack on Sunday December 20, 2020 @06:31PM (#25490630)

My /usr/bin is 800M

    /usr/bin$ du -schL .
    813M total

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