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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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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.

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