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Re:14-inch MacBook Pro review: A Mac Pro in your backpack by fayten on Monday October 25, 2021 @11:35AM (#28989005)
Yes, but it's very rare now a days. I live in JVM land and there are quite a few native JNA libraries that I have run into issues with. One example is vlcj [1] I just ran into yesterday. I have yet to dig deeply into the issue just yet, but it's giving me the fun "no compatible architecture found error". SWT and JavaFX both fully works with arm now though, so I am pretty happy on that front. GraalVM native-image also does not support building ARM on Mac yet either. On the C/C++ side of things I have not ran into any incompatibility issues in the last 5 months. I'd say 99% of my time is smooth sailing at this point.

[1] https://github.com/caprica/vlcj

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Re:14-inch MacBook Pro review: A Mac Pro in your backpack by chrisseaton on Monday October 25, 2021 @11:41AM (#28989078)
They really need to get on and support macOS ARM for GraalVM. It's clearly not going away - it just needs doing.
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Re:14-inch MacBook Pro review: A Mac Pro in your backpack by smoldesu on Monday October 25, 2021 @12:38PM (#28989883)
While we're asking, would it really be that much trouble getting Vulkan working? It falls in the same category of 'not going away but needs doing'.
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Re:14-inch MacBook Pro review: A Mac Pro in your backpack by my123 on Monday October 25, 2021 @02:45PM (#28991546)
Vulkan already works ok through MoltenVK.
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Re:14-inch MacBook Pro review: A Mac Pro in your backpack by smoldesu on Monday October 25, 2021 @02:49PM (#28991594)
It's far from a complete solution though, and it's still going to have worse performance than a native implementation. Apple needs to prioritize Vulkan support on these devices if they don't want to repeat the last 15 years of Mac GPU issues.
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