Comment by refulgentis
7 hours ago
Running on ported userspace components, with a shim, isn't the same as running on the OS in itself.
That really matters, sometimes.
But not the vast majority of the time.
(source: been coding iOS since pre-SDK iPhone OS 1.0)
Can you give some examples of where it matters? I'm genuinely curious.
Last I checked, VPN network extensions wouldn't run in the simulator.
Is the simulator faster than this? I would suspect so.