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Re:Apple Exploring RISC-V, Hiring RISC-V ‘High Performance’ ... by api on Friday September 03, 2021 @10:11AM (#28404462)
The big down-side is that they'd end up with really fat binaries and edge case bugs in some apps across architectures.

Apple can pivot architectures, but I don't think they do it lightly.

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Re:Apple Exploring RISC-V, Hiring RISC-V ‘High Performance’ ... by brucehoult on Friday September 03, 2021 @11:10PM (#28411769)
Modern MacOS and iOS app size is completely dominated by image and other media assets. The code is down in the noise.
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Re:Apple Exploring RISC-V, Hiring RISC-V ‘High Performance’ ... by saagarjha on Friday September 03, 2021 @11:25PM (#28411815)
This is not true; most popular iOS apps have very large binary sizes.
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