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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismY Intel (and everyone else) knows that Apple is the trend setter. If ARM has reached a point that the power per watt is more than sufficient for a standard user's traditional "PC" needs then Apple moving to …
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 Do you know that a good portion of the code that the climate scientists use in their climate models is Fortran based? That right there is enough to make me question their theories about the causes of globa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ascii One potential additional barrier I would add is GPUs. Are the normal Nvidia and AMD GPUs compatible with ARM or do they have to be used with Intel CPUs? If they are incompatible, we would be stuck with Apple's in…
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The second problem is no longer really a problem, as AMD has ARM chips, both in market and in the pipeline.
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Obligatory #TeamRust Post Forgot to mention that. One of the languages I'm hoping to dethrone C++, the other would be D, which seems to be doing pretty good for itself.
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismY 2) I'm digging into my first Swift book and I have to say, while the code looks much nicer than all the Obj-C I've read and coded when trying to learn how to write apps, I'm still just as useless as ever. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismY It wasn't that long ago that Objective-C was far behind where Swift is today. Apple has hand. Well that is because Swift doesn't look like it was designed by a 1st year college programmer having a seizure…
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Quote: Originally Posted by xixo Quote: "assembly" (assembler) is something of a misnomer, since every chip architecture has different assembly mnemonics. Intel x86 assembly is dramatically different from Apple A8 assembly... Yes I'm aw…
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Quote: Originally Posted by xixo Swift's beating FORTRAN? Fortran has been relegated to HPC markets mostly and even there C++ and Haskell have been making inroads slowly for years.
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Quote: Originally Posted by TheWhiteFalcon IIRC, to get the best performance out of the PS3 you coded with it. With consoles in general, you use a little assembly inlined with C/C++ for performance sensitive areas. But with the amount o…
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I'm surprised Assembly is as high as it is on that chart.
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismY I don't see why Apple couldn't do that, but wouldn't using PPC or ARM still make it much slower emulation, not virtualization? Maybe I worded it wrong. Or maybe I'm reading this wrong. QEMU is a hardw…
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Quote: Originally Posted by plovell Yes - as I said at the start, Swift in itself is not part of any x86/ARM solution. What the development of Swift shows is that Apple now has the talent to develop a Rosetta2. That wasn't possible ten or fift…
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Quote: Originally Posted by plovell Not a troll-question - I honestly don't know. Does AMD have an x86 license from Intel, or did they reverse-engineer it ? My recollection is that they did the latter but I don't know for sure. Does anyone have…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Syrran Apple, pls buy AMD for their x86 license @ a big premium over the current share price! (But it's not like Apple to do that.) Sure. If you love setting money on fire this is a great idea. The Second Appl…
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Have fun with your thing there Samsung. I'll just stick to Arduino and Raspberry pi projects for my IoT needs. You know...those actual open hardware projects.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin I wonder if Apple maintains their own branches of the underlying UNIX software or if they keep them synced with the open source community. A little of Both. Apple's OpenGL drivers are their own. When Appl…
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Quote: a unique identifier or a standard HTTP URL over Bluetooth Low Energy. It's already dead. No way I'm transmitting anything HTTP. Especially on a mobile device. HTTPS or GTFO Google.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Rogifan Isn't it Microsoft kind of doing the same thing? They just bought hockeyapp and I read that they're making a big push to get developrs using their tools for iOS development. As of current, nothing I've see…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TheWhiteFalcon As long as they stick with their proprietary engine on the PC I'm fine with this. Please no. Gecko needs to die already. Give me a working Servo Mozilla.