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From: Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me>
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Subject: Re: Who is going to buy the first Arm (M1) MacBooks?
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 14:04:13 -0000 (UTC)
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In message <kcOrH.306825$mK4.71532@fx03.iad> JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> On 2020-11-14 04:47, Lewis wrote:

>> Yeo, especially considering how simple the transition from Intel to ARM
>> was for the developers (One spent several days porting, but the others
>> did their ports in under a day and one spent less than 15 minutes).

> Simple enough that it will take months more for Adobe to release native
> Photoshop.

Adobe is Adobe and always moves at a snail's pace. Affinity will be out
day one, for example. ALL the Omni apps are ready to go on M1 Macs. Many
many others as well.

> If you want to create binaries that make use of the new various
> sub-processors like neural engine, image processor etc, support the
> integrated GPUs etc, you need to start putting in a lot of conditional
> code that applies only for a compilation targetted at the Mx chips, and
> still generate your normal code for all other platforms.

You have no fucking clue what you are talking about. Again. Nothing in
that paragraph is at all accurate.

> Remains to be seen how much use Adobe will make the the proprietary
> processors around he CPU, and how much Metal/GPU they will use.

And the idiocy continues.

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