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[prirun]

"Apple is exploring tools that will ensure apps developed for older Intel-based Macs still work on the new machines."

Part of their release timing might be to ensure that emulating Intel on Arm has acceptable performance for most users.

[jonplackett → prirun]

If they really can do this at decent performance, the arm chips must be even faster than we'd expect. The reason that worked OK going PPC->Intel was the intel one was mostly a lot faster.