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Re:FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE Now Available by pdntspa on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @10:12AM (#35525430)
If you're going to run it in a VM, why ARM?
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Re:FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE Now Available by lockhouse on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @03:02PM (#35529793)
Not OP by my machine is an M1 Mac, so ARM64 VMs are much more performant than emulated x86/x64 ones.
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Re:FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE Now Available by jmort253 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:35AM (#35535419)
Exactly. I was on an M1 Mac, so trying to emulate x86/64 would have been painfully, unusably slow.

For simple console stuff on the terminal, it's ok. But when the GUI is involved, or anything with a lot of computation, having to translate all of the instructions from native ARM64 back to x86/64 and back takes a ton of resources and time.

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