The concept of Universal Binaries (which is what is used when making a program for both Intel, And Apple silicon), is not new and is used to ease technology transitions. When the Mac went from PPC to Intel Apple implemented Universal Binaries, so Mac software in the mid 2000s would have been bigger because their Universal Binaries contained both PPC code, and Intel code, to run on both architectures. It's the same exact thing. Then we had Universal Binaries for both 32-bit, and 64-bit code, before this latest iteration to transition from Intel to Apple silicon.Weren't Apple software file sizes always larger than their Windows equivalent?
I seem to recall that being the case, long before Apple Silcon ARM.
So UB's have been around for well over a decade, while the Mac has undergone various technology transitions.
Statistics: Posted by beely — Sun Jul 14, 2024 5:27 pm