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by BillinghamJ 2244 days ago
A lot of instruction sets aren't there yet, but https://ish.app is doing a truly incredible job in this regard.

Gives you a working Alpine Linux installation which you can download and install packages for normally, all within the bounds of the normal Apple sandbox, with decent enough performance.

It doesn't have SSE or MMX yet, so eg Go and Node aren't usable at this point. But a shocking amount actually does work perfectly, so it's only a matter of time as more instruction sets are implemented.
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qubex 2244 days ago
I suggest you also check out UTM (Universal Turing Machine), an emulator for the iPad that you can build and that allows you to emulate many different architectures and tun OSes written for them (including ARM).

https://getutm.app

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p1necone 2244 days ago
It's pretty atrocious that you have to run an x86 emulator to use your iPad "pro" for this stuff. This project is super cool though.
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p1necone 2244 days ago
Actually wouldn't a userspace ARM "emulator" be faster than an x86 one on an ARM device? Or are you so far removed from running actual CPU instructions that it doesn't matter?
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BillinghamJ 2244 days ago
Actually looks like MMX was just released, so Go is now running. It can't build yet though.
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