This is why I am hoping future ARM chips being so powerful they can emulate something like Core i7 9900K or RTX 2080 in full speed. Heck, if nvidia is off the table, it can emulate AMD GPU as well. Not like those games only support nvidia or amd. Dunno when it will happen but for all industries to truly move away from x86, powerful emulation is pretty much required, unless they avoid x86 like plague and drop it like apple did.
- at least not for Windows/Linux. And some upcoming ARM processors will be shipping with AMD GPUs. Samsung, I think, will be doing that. Keep in mind that for GPUs it’s less about emulating the underlying hardware than supporting the graphics API - Direct X or Vulcan for non-macOS systems.Can you provide any information supporting your claim that Carla dropped support because Apple did something bad? Because I did some searching, and this doesn't seem remotely true. The discussions I've found on the project's github issue tracker say the project's devs don't even own Macs:
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Armv9-A does no such thing.
A-Profile Architecture
The Arm Application-profile (A-profile) architecture targets high-performance markets, such as PC, mobile, gaming, and enterprise.
The "EL0-only" note means that Armv9-A permits AArch32 support only in Exception Level 0, aka user mode. So you can still design an Armv9-A CPU core capable of running 32-bit user programs under a 64-bit kernel.
What's changed relative to Armv8-A is that v8 allowed 32-bit support in all four exception levels, EL0-EL3, so you could run 32-bit kernels and hypervisors.
(I haven't looked to confirm, but I'd bet a lot of money that supporting AArch32 at all is still optional, just as it was in Armv8-A.)
I think I've seen otherwise respectable tech journalists claim things like that, probably because they thought Arm Holdings disclosing future AArch64-only Armv9 core designs implied that the Armv9 spec mandated fully dropping AArch32. Wouldn't surprise me if that's where you picked up the idea.
Can you provide any information supporting your claim that Carla dropped support because Apple did something bad? Because I did some searching, and this doesn't seem remotely true. The discussions I've found on the project's github issue tracker say the project's devs don't even own Macs:
Building Carla on Mac OSX · Issue #150 · carla-simulator/carla
Online I see that there only exist manual for installing and building Carla on Linux. Is it possible for installing and running it on Mac?
It does sound like Carla has been built on macOS in the past. That's because, despite your complaints, Apple's "ecosystem mess" has all the library dependencies Carla requires. People were able to hack on the build scripts, edit a few source files, and get it built and running.
However, it also sounds like nobody ever stepped up to do the hard work: polishing the changes enough to merge them back into the main tree, then volunteering to maintain it over a long period of time. This is an issue common to all volunteer open source projects. If you don't find a sufficiently dedicated volunteer to maintain something, it's going to wither away and die.
I’m not talking about just macOS, I’m also mentioning windows and Linux as some people are suggesting Intel and amd ditching x86 support rather quickly for the sake of “advancement” and “improvements” provided by 64bit or they will “bankrupt quickly”.
Well "normal users" don't typically run Linux as a desktop OS. Even on Windows, most apps have been 64bit for some time except for some weird exceptions like Visual Studio.
i dont care if its the speed of light.. if it runs windows it doesnt matter.. why compare a bicycle to a car..
To be fair, many people would call macOS a bicycle and Windows a car…So
My understanding is that ARMv9 is *not* removing all 32-bit support, however, ARM *is* removing all 32-bit support from a number of their core designs. In fact, there's even an ARMv8 core design with 64-bit only
Clusters are different, but workstations, sure. Been using Macs for ages, so are many of my computer science and math students, as well as colleagues. Many are switching though due to ongoing problems. Our whole IT department is using Macs (MBAs), spoke to one of the last week and they wish they'd have gone for Dell/Lenovo now after being happy initially.
Use a wayback machine, they had it on their website in the past. Me and my research group have been using it for years. Apple is always breaking something and it's not just one software project. Do a search for the proxy communication in the Unity engine when using it for something like the ML-Agents toolkit, which broke several times after Apple updated the OS. It's just not worth fixing. I've dropped macOS support for several Unity and Unreal based projects as well this year.
I knew someone catch that... it was the timeint of the same release... just what came to mind at the time of writing the post... but good catch. I also did not say that iOS 15 was the cause... just the when. And I also explained that the problem "fixed itself" in a couple of days. Which is a positive on the M1 mac's part. At least it didn't brick on me.
Neither do I. Workstation is still a desk solution though, something like a Dell Precision 7920 or a Mac Pro. Shipping off we do to clusters with thousands of CPU cores and many GPUs, while a workstation is more like up to 48/64 CPU cores and 4 GPUs max.
Depends on what you're working on I guess. We're focussed on AI research, working together with car and car parts manufacturers (BMW, Volvo, Audi, Continental, mobileye, etc.), robotics manufacturers like Kuka, ABB, Boston Dynamics, Kawada, etc., but also other autonomous systems with NASA/ESA and a few others. Others might not have those requirements. Our security research group is really a mix of Lenovo and Macs, I'd say the Lenovo/Linux guys are more "applied" research and those doing theoretical work (post quantum cryptography, etc.) are more on macOS.
Thanks for the suggestion that I'm not normal. It's been hinted at before
Almost every single application I run is native Apple Silicon. The ones that do run through rosetta run faster than my Intel 6 core Mac mini. Heck even the open source Blender now has native M1 support.
