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glynor:
AnandTech posted some benchmarks! Real ones.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-tested

There's some glorious nerdy detail in there.

blgentry:
MC for Mac is likely to run flawlessly under Rosetta2 with the new Macs and the Apple Silicon chips (starting with M1).  Rosetta2 has only one job:  Translate Intel (x86) binary code into Apple ARM code.  It's an emulator.  They built it specifically so Mac customers that own x86 (Intel) binaries will be able to run almost everything from day 1.  if something like Photoshop works with Rosetta2, you can darn sure bet that MC will run under it just fine. 

Remember that Apple is a very large well thought out hardware and software producer.  This isn't their first rodeo.  They changed CPU technologies twice before with the Mac.  The latest one, from PowerPC to Intel caused them to write Rosetta.  Rosetta2 is probably a bit better and of course it goes from Intel to AARM.

As for changing to a native AARM version of MC, I think Bob has it right:  Just recompile with XCode and it should produce new binaries that are AARM and the world will be good.  There's probably a bit more to it, but it's not like any of MC is written in assembly or anything.  It uses XCode already and should be pretty straight forward to port/recompile.

I'm excited to see what comes with the M1 and other AARM chips.

Brian.

bob:
The math co-processor routines in various libraries need to be compiled to ARM but since we've already done something similar with the ARM linux build it's not a new thing to us.

David593:
Thanks for all the comments. To be nerdy for a moment, the benchmarks and hands on testing of the review units has many people very excited. The cpu nerds are very impressed.... and they are platform agnostic 👍

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