Subj : Re: Hackintosh
To   : 2twisty
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Apr 21 2022 19:05:21

  Re: Re: Hackintosh
  By: 2twisty to Nightfox on Thu Apr 21 2022 07:32 pm

 Ni>> That's what I thought initially.  I had done some reading about it
 Ni>> online and it sounded like it was a software component, like the
 Ni>> original Rosetta, and not actually in the M1 processor itself.

 2t> IIRC, Rosetta (1) did real-time instruction translation every time you ran
 2t> the app. Rosetta (2) does the translation ONCE and stores some kind of
 2t> translated binary on the filesystem. 

 2t> This allows for Rosetta (2) to run apps much quicker once the translation
 2t> has happened. 

 2t> Not 100% sure of this, but I thought I read/saw that somewhere when the M1
 2t> came out. 

Yeah, I was reading about it again, and it sounds like the new Rosetta translates an x86 app for the M1 and then stores a cached copy of the M1 version so it doesn't have to translate it again.

Nightfox
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