ARM first & default LDC

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On Tuesday, 15 December 2020 at 10:13:41 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
> On Tuesday, 15 December 2020 at 08:06:34 UTC, Dylan Graham 
> wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Apple might have gone over to ARM but in the Windows world x86 
> isn't going away anytime soon. There is simply too much SW for 
> x86 for people making the switch. There are x86 emulators but 
> the performance is probably not satisfactory right now.

Apple can emulate x86 quite fast, we can expect MS can do the 
same.

> I would rather say that ARM is getting more competition in 
> embedded. Because of the recent sales of ARM, this is enough to 
> get some people scared. They believe that the business model of 
> ARM is going away or they will refocus. Regardless if this is 
> true or not some are looking at alternatives and that might be 
> RISC V. Also where cost is important RISC V will have an 
> advantage. The rising star in my opinion is RISC V.

Agreed. And this looks like another one reason to make the LLVM 
backend default.