On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 at 07:21, Tim Sutton <t...@kartoza.com> wrote: > For the macOS side of this, I wonder if things are quite so urgent. I think > the first ARM (‘Apple Silicon’) based machines are going to be out this year, > but it will be a two years before their product line is fully transitioned. > macOS 11, as I understood things, will ship with Rosetta which will do a > direct binary translation to ARM byte code, even if the binary does not ship > with ARM binaries (e.g. as a Universal Binary). In the last episode of the > ubuntu podcast > (https://ubuntupodcast.org/2020/07/02/s13e15-vertical-chopsticks/) they > discussed it a bit - probably worth a listen… I heard that the Rosetta > overhead is around 25% on current development environments - probably the > overhead will be reduced as the release approaches. Anyway, its good you are > planning for the future, but I don’t think that macIS users are going to be > left high and dry with upcoming changes…..hope I am note wrong :-) >
That's fair enough. I still think we should permit Qt 6 builds as soon as possible, for all the other reasons I listed :) I'd also like to point out that 25% is quite a drop in performance (I get pissed off whenever I see my system performance drop a few percent due to the latest Intel incompetence!!). I can only imagine that our mac users will be quite... ummm... "demanding" that we get native support available for their platform as soon as this hardware retails! _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
