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by plorkyeran 754 days ago
Bitcode did not allow recompilation to take advantage of new instructions. They dropped bitcode because they never actually managed to do anything with it other than the armvk7 to arm64_32 recompilation, and that required specifically designing arm64_32 around what was possible with bitcode.

Updating apps to use new vector instructions is far more complicated than upgrading to a new compiler version and having it magically get faster.