On 04/25/2012 04:17 PM, Jason H wrote:
I had considered that, but rejected it because Apple designs and manufactures its own chips. Therefore, they would change their CPU design rather than switch architectures.
AFAIK Apple doesn't manufacture their chips - they are in fact, fairly famous for being fabless. They do design/tweaking, but that's a different story. And to return to the previous point - architecture matters a lot less than people would assume here. This is not the desktop world where transitions take 3 years, mobile hardware and software ages a LOT faster, so as much as it hurts the perfectionist engineer inside compatibility nowadays means a lot less than it did previously (feel free to disagree). Also (just to alienate the audience further ;) ) the architecture portability of "Android" Java means less than you might think - performance hungry applications/libraries already extensively use the NDK, and a large amount of Android/Dalvik optimizations is actually fairly ARM specific.
Attila
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