Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 19:56:27 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "James Bowman Sineath, III" <sineathj1@citadel.edu> Cc: Duo <duo@digitalarcadia.net>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: apple moving to x86 Message-ID: <20050607235627.GA96802@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <000b01c56bbb$5eab05d0$0463a8c0@GARUDA> References: <b41c755205060614186bb2a201@mail.gmail.com> <42A4FD3F.70407@pacific.net.sg> <c389a04d050607070752998e86@mail.gmail.com> <42A62D8D.2020100@digitalarcadia.net> <000b01c56bbb$5eab05d0$0463a8c0@GARUDA>
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--T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 07:48:13PM -0400, James Bowman Sineath, III wrote: > necessary boots into some virtual environment. But Mathmatica was > recompiled in XCode in 2 hours! Note that this factoid is possibly a cheat, since Mathematica *already* runs on x86 in several OSes, and is *already* ported to something like 8 architecures and a dozen OSes. It's a cool sound bite, but unlikely to be representative. If your code is non-portable, there's no magical way to fix that. Kris > So, it won't take long for companies > to release Mac/Intel software because the recompile is effortless > since Mac has been secretly working this for 5 years. --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCpjQrWry0BWjoQKURAhyoAKCUgveSWUochHVjI1ROs44Uu6+7SwCfVVcj 6F8z6pPTLGHf3V2f3IIElPw= =kzZI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR--
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