Apple is officially moving away from Intel to a custom Arm chip

[Martin Tschierschke]

On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 01:25:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/24/2020 4:21 AM, aberba wrote:
>> PC was the only compelling target for Intel/Amd targets but 
>> now its changing.
>
> Search for "arm computer" on newegg.com:
>
> https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=arm+computer
>
> :-)

:-)

But there is more with ARM:

ARM-based Japanese supercomputer is now the fastest in the world

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/23/21300097/fugaku-supercomputer-worlds-fastest-top500-riken-fujitsu-arm

Question: How complicated would it be to replace the compilation 
result of DMD (X86 code) with the code an X86 emulator on ARM 
would use.
By this "trick" you might get the fast DMD compilation times for 
development and use LDC for production?

Best regards mt.