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What has endianness to do with porting from x86 to ARM? Typical ARM implementations/ABIs use little endian mode.



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And the more prosaic version: it doesn’t mean it’s CPU-agnostic, all it means is that Apple has slightly more freedom to change instructions on the CPUs that they do target? [10:30] What advantages are there of compiling something to Bitcode and then uploading it somewhere versus sending someone a binary?




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