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Re:Why is Rosetta 2 fast? by josephg on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @11:25PM (#33542186)
> That's why bitcode is dead now.

WebAssembly seems alive and well. I'm not sure how similar it is to java bitcode but its the same core idea.

That said, WASM through v8 is ~3x slower than the same code compiled natively. (Some of this might be due to the lack of SIMD in wasm).

Re:Why is Rosetta 2 fast? by astrange on Thursday November 10, 2022 @03:03PM (#33552383)
"Bitcode" is the name of a specific Xcode feature in this case, not a general comment.