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boredatomsyesterday at 11:43 PM1 replyview on HN

Is this what apple does in xcode?


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vlovich123yesterday at 11:57 PM

If you’re talking about the simulator, no. That doesn’t virtualize - it literally just runs it locally on your machine. Less RAM overhead and CPU since it uses your normal instruction set and doesn’t run a separate kernel and userspace.

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