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		saagarjha on Sept 19, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Rust Toolchain for iOS Bitcode > but would also let them use their own CPU architecture should they move away from Intel/ARM Only if their new architecture looked a lot like Intel/ARM. Bitcode can’t paper over all architectural differences.

pjmlp on Sept 19, 2019 [–]

Regular bitcode cannot do it. However Apple has naturally customized it for their own purposes.

Not everything that Apple does lands on upstream.

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