Whew. I bought an M1 specifically to test my J libraries. I should probably actually plug it in and try it. :D
On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 5:06 AM bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
