Christopher Smith wrote:
Tracy R Reed wrote:
Christopher Smith wrote:
OSF/1), and even they didn't really use it for distribution. In the end,
nobody was particularly interested in making their stuff run on other
people's architecture, and ANDF always seemed like it would put you at a
disadvantage relative to native stuff.
Back then it probably would have. And the market was different then. I
think it was an idea ahead of its time.
Actually, these days the disadvantage seems more significant, as there
are fewer competing architectures. You might as well just do binary
translation from x86... as hideous as that sounds.
You are forgetting about an architecture that dwarfs the number of x86's
shipped--ARM.
Apple is looking at stuff like LLVM because they see that ARM is going
to become an increasing player in their ecosystem and they are placing
themselves in a position to avoid another costly transition.
I would bet that LLVM is about to be at the core of a *lot* of iPhone stuff.
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