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Comment by drran

5 years ago

Multi OS/arch executables exists for decades. They were called fat-binaries[0]. Old trick is new again.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_binary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_binary

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drran

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Wowfunhappy  5 years ago

But compared to what jart has done, those were effectively cheating. ;) They just smooshed multiple binaries into a single file.

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