Comment by GeekyBear
3 months ago
> There is more substantial overhead translating to a different instruction set than in converting API calls to another API.
It's a one time only cost, since Rosetta only runs the first time you launch an app and the translation is written to disk to be used in the future.
That means there is no ongoing cost by your logic, and Proton translating an API call every time it is used is worse.
I'm talking about the overhead post-translation for Rosetta. Translating optimized code from one architecture to another is difficult, which is why there is a performance hit.