There are jengine arm binaries for m1 chip on
http://www.jsoftware.com/download/jengine/j903-beta/darwin/arm/

But performance is about the same as that running under Rosetta.

Also Arm binaries Qt ide not yet unavailable.


On Tue, Sep 7, 2021, 4:58 PM Joey K Tuttle <[email protected]> wrote:

> J installs and runs fine on the M1 MacMini - but (perhaps) because it is
> running in rosetta the performance isn't dramatic. In fact, it might be a
> little slower than your current Mini.
>
> That is,  running on a 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5
>
>     5] 6!:2 '%. 1000 1000 ?@$0'
> 0.251835
>
> on an M1 Mini
>
>    5 ] 6!:2 '%. 1000 1000 ?@$0'
> 0.320782
>
> Of course, that's a lot of floating point where Intel AVX helps out (these
> were both in j903 beta-o) Real programs might do better on the Mini, I do
> hope to see a native compile for the Apple chip one of these days.
>
> - joey
>
> > On 2021Sep 7, at 01:21, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hold off on a new mini (unless you want to buy one for the J software
> team).
> >
> > They'll need to test J on the new machines before they can reliably
> > release it to us.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Raul
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 1:55 AM 'Nollaig MacKenzie' via General
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> I haven’t been paying close enough attention probably, but I seem to
> recall mention recently
> >> of difficulty installing J on the most recent version of the Mac mini.
> I should replace my old
> >> mini sometime soon, but if a new mini wouldn’t fit with J, I’d have to
> think about a different
> >> machine.
> >>
> >> I don’t need, and probably wouldn’t understand, a lot of information.
> “Don’t worry” or “Forget
> >> a new mini” would be ideal.  :-)
> >>
> >> TIA, N.
> >>
> >>
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