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by gamache 956 days ago
One nit to pick: as far as I am aware, "aarch64" and "arm64" are the same thing. Am I off?
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mschuster91 956 days ago
They are the same thing but there used to be two competing LLVM implementations on the backend side.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/MTY5ODk

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gamache 956 days ago
Thanks, that is very helpful!
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stefan_ 956 days ago
Obligatory: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/15/133
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pitaj 956 days ago
I love how he ranted so hard - without even mentioning the embedded or realtime variants.
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nerdponx 956 days ago
What I see in Python is that "aarch64" usually refers to Linux and "arm64" usually refers to MacOS ARM. I don't know enough about these things to understand why they have different names.
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