From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 7 23:56:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48E4316A41C for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 23:56:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.194.102.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE7CA43D4C for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 23:56:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B891E51288; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 19:56:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 19:56:27 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: "James Bowman Sineath, III" Message-ID: <20050607235627.GA96802@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <42A4FD3F.70407@pacific.net.sg> <42A62D8D.2020100@digitalarcadia.net> <000b01c56bbb$5eab05d0$0463a8c0@GARUDA> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="T4sUOijqQbZv57TR" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000b01c56bbb$5eab05d0$0463a8c0@GARUDA> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: Duo , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: apple moving to x86 X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 23:56:29 -0000 --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--