I know. I didn't want to create a link between the Sun Open Source DTrace and LLVM but that may have inadvertently happened. Isn't there a tool now that can see where your app can be broken into threads in Xcode?
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I doubt that. While you have a modicum of technical ability you display cognitive issues, delivering extraneous information that is out of context.
When I say "GLkit is available on Intel and ARM" I'm not asking for a treatise on shaders or OpenGL and OpenGL ES differences"
You attempt to overwhelm people with minutiae. I respect your "deep dive" technical knowledge to decline accepting your "unarmed" tag since I don't think you understand fully the scenario here.
The facts of this argument are in the minutaie details. if you choose that you wish to look at it on a surface level and not deep delve into it like Knight is, and are finding yourself "overwhelmed", perhaps you're finding that your breadth of knowledge on this subject is outside of your scope and that he might in fact have more knowledge than you, and perhaps instead of dismissing his attempt to illustrate where you're lacking, you could learn a few things.
Dismissing his commentary as wrong because it's too deep and 'boring' doesn't change the fact that he's more likely correct. unless there is a significant advancement in ARM processor architecture that completely blows intel's advancements out of the water, he's correct.
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As for a business aspect of an architecture switch, Apple (or anyone) would be in a big way of trouble to move off the x86 at this current point. Windows, believe it or not is still the number 1 used operating system in the world. While Apple PC sales have improved dramatically since their old incompatible PPC closed garden, one needs to look back and remember that without the ability to run windows or similar applications on Apple hardware, Their market penetration was ~5%. If changing CPU architecture limited people to OSx or even iOS only on the PC side, it would be a sufficient hurt to go back to such days, as developers are more likely than not going to ignore the platform with near zero penetration that would require them to code everything entirely over again.
last time, Apple almost went bankrupt.
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I'll stick to the point of saying, ARM isn't getting to desktop/laptop level processing power in the immediate future. 5-10 years from now we may be talking about a different story, but in the near future I see no reason to move Mac to ARM.
Further emphasis on today''s performance. Currently Google has released a laptop based on an ARM CPU built by samsung in the name of the chromebook. This is running a highly customized OS exclusively built to run on minimal hardware. it is effectively.. a browser OS.
Even on a pretty beefy dual core Samsung CPU that is near the high end of what's available, Reviews have had mixed feelings and results over the performance of simple desktop like tasks. the ARM cpu's are fantastic in embedded platforms, and with code that is highly customized to specifiic tasks with limited use, but as general computing platform they are years behind.
