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New comment by rarepostinlurkr in "Blurry rendering of games on Mac"

rarepostinlurkr — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 05:37:21 +0000

I don't follow how Rosetta 2 supporting Mac games from the x86 era is going to "shrink" that number.

macOS x86 games + macOS arm64 games == same number of games. Whats the loss angle here?

New comment by rarepostinlurkr in "Blurry rendering of games on Mac"

rarepostinlurkr — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 05:34:34 +0000

If anything it's an example that games can be amazing on macOS, if developers take the time to learn and use the system. WoW on macOS is a far superior experience to WoW on Windows.

New comment by rarepostinlurkr in "An Introduction to ARM64 Assembly on Apple Silicon Macs"

rarepostinlurkr — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 16:05:43 +0000

Apple literally published a 200 page guide on arm64 which I linked above, they've contributed low level optimizations and tunings to NumPy, Embree and Blender to name a few projects.

They clearly are helping. Perhaps you've not noticed?

New comment by rarepostinlurkr in "An Introduction to ARM64 Assembly on Apple Silicon Macs"

rarepostinlurkr — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 16:04:01 +0000

Honestly no reason the majority of this wouldn't apply to "non Apple" arm64. It's sort of like being worried about AMD x86 vs Intel x86. It mostly doesn't matter, except in some cases where it does, but you don't set out to say "I don't want to learn Intel x86, only AMD x86"

You learn arm64, then you can worry about if you need to deal with implementation specific ISA quirks.

New comment by rarepostinlurkr in "An Introduction to ARM64 Assembly on Apple Silicon Macs"

rarepostinlurkr — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 16:01:58 +0000

Thats not uncommon

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/arm64-windows-ab...

New comment by rarepostinlurkr in "An Introduction to ARM64 Assembly on Apple Silicon Macs"

rarepostinlurkr — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 16:01:20 +0000

Have you done anything interesting with what the guide has shared? I see people talking about how it's amazing but... where? in what?

New comment by rarepostinlurkr in "An Introduction to ARM64 Assembly on Apple Silicon Macs"

rarepostinlurkr — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 05:12:17 +0000

May want to review https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/cpu-... for additional details…

New comment by rarepostinlurkr in "Optimizing your programs for Arm platforms"

rarepostinlurkr — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 21:54:09 +0000

It’s good so much attention is being given to arm! Apple also recently released more details on optimization

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/cpu-...

New comment by rarepostinlurkr in "Apple Silicon CPU Optimization Guide"

rarepostinlurkr — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 21:36:47 +0000

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/cpu-... might be a better link to use since it does not require auth and will allow people at a glance to see what the content might be about.

New comment by rarepostinlurkr in "Apple Silicon M1 Emulating x86 Is Still Faster Than Every Other Mac"

rarepostinlurkr — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 04:12:52 +0000

Apps installed via MAS and packages are pre translated (at install time)

New comment by rarepostinlurkr in "Apple's “Disposable and Unfixable” Airpods [video]"

rarepostinlurkr — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 04:14:14 +0000

I guess the market will decide how much it values that feature? Choice is good.

New comment by rarepostinlurkr in "Rethinking the App Store"

rarepostinlurkr — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 17:59:08 +0000

> For me the biggest problem is Apple deciding what/whose apps ios (and macos, given the recent code signing requirements coming with mac silicon...) users are permitted to use.

Thats FUD. The release notes even address it "This new behavior doesn’t change the long-established policy that our users and developers can run arbitrary code on their Macs, and is designed to simplify the execution policies on Apple silicon Mac computers and enable the system to better detect code modifications."

New comment by rarepostinlurkr in "LFortran: Modern interactive LLVM-based Fortran compiler"

rarepostinlurkr — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 08:07:27 +0000

Support for arm?

New comment by rarepostinlurkr in "How Apple Is Working From Home"

rarepostinlurkr — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 23:02:28 +0000

Thats exactly the order of events since iWork '09, remarkable! =)

New comment by rarepostinlurkr in "macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated"

rarepostinlurkr — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 06:58:12 +0000

They are in 10.15.4

New comment by rarepostinlurkr in "Ending Support for macOS and Linux"

rarepostinlurkr — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 04:36:09 +0000

Many of those games are flagged as not working or not 64, but they are. Stardew Valley for example says it won’t work in Catalina, yet click run and it loads fine.

Plenty of FUD in that UI.

New comment by rarepostinlurkr in "The future of my games on Apple and what this means for art games"

rarepostinlurkr — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 17:41:39 +0000

You don’t have to keep paying $100/year. Once a thing is notarized, it’s notarized. Also, anyone can submit any software to notarization, it’s not proof of ownership or identity.

New comment by rarepostinlurkr in "Leaving Apple"

rarepostinlurkr — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 05:18:30 +0000

Phone support is a download triggered when the phone is plugged in. 10.11 supports iPhone 11...

New comment by rarepostinlurkr in "Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS Catalina"

rarepostinlurkr — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 00:53:12 +0000

This is not new, same data is on disk for 10.14 and 10.13. Completely wrong conclusions

New comment by rarepostinlurkr in "List of 235 apps incompatible with macOS Catalina 10.15 Raw"

rarepostinlurkr — Sat, 03 Aug 2019 15:48:09 +0000

This is not a new list in Catalina, you can see this same list on 10.9,10.10,10.11,10.12, 10.13 and 10.14. A quick check confirms the checksums between the 10.13 and version shown here have not changed.