Comment by scotty79
10 hours ago
> Apple should sell Rosetta to Valve.
Isn't Rosetta kinda bad though? And won't get much better because it's not open source?
10 hours ago
> Apple should sell Rosetta to Valve.
Isn't Rosetta kinda bad though? And won't get much better because it's not open source?
Rosetta performance is best in class to my knowledge, although they had the benefit of being able to add custom instructions and modes to the cpu to make some parts easier. Meaning Rosetta would not have helped valve unless they built the frame on apple silicon.
As for not improving, it is likely that Apple no longer feels the need to invest in Rosetta improvements now that Apple silicon is so dominant and software support is already very strong, but nothing is stopping them from investing in it if they need it for example for gaming
Rosetta is abandonware: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/abou...
Why would a company on its way to the moon, entrust such an important project as translation layer between two major architectures to a single rinky-dinky corp that got rich selling common electronics marketed as luxury fluff, that's on the decline and has head so far stuck up its butt that it thinks it can do whatever it wants, instead of just write it themselves with support of the global developer community?
Apple could never do games because there are no luxury games. That's completely out of their zone of comprehensibility.
I don’t know if the two companies have such different futures.
The games industry as a whole is in potentially terminal decline, have you seen all of the redundancies lately?
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