Mac build is still Intel only, when Apple Silicon ARM64 so M1 M1X M2 M2X support is coming?

[dia3olik]

For I/O intensive apps the speed improvements Apple Silicon architecture brings are very nice, when an Universal build will be released?

Or maybe in the meantime an Apple Silicon beta build while we wait for the Mac version to be Universal?

Thanks Boris !!!!!!!!!!!!

[whyboris]

I hope to get access to M1 Mac in the coming months - to be able to build an M1 build in addition to a regular Mac build 🤞

Thanks for letting me know about "Universal build" - I'll read up about it. As far as I can tell, I could just release two versions of the app (Intel and M1) and that would solve the problem. The "Universal" is some method of creating a single installation file that handles both? If so, it would depend on Electron (& Electron Builder) handling it somehow 🤷 - until then I think 2 separate installation would address this issue, right?

[dia3olik]

Universal builds are handy for distribution and for people not sure on which cpu have on their mac and to make things easier but a single build is ofc bigger in size, having to contain more than one version inside, but Apple is doing a good job trying to optimize this with shared resources and such between the included versions in a single Universal package.

BTW Yeah 2 binaries would be totally ok, the speed improvements on Apple Silicon architecture are HUGE (shared memory bandwidth and lower latency along with low power consumption and low heat) and optimized further day by day and I'm so curious to see how VHA3 will FLY on Apple Silicon!

[whyboris]

Thank you for putting this on my radar an for the explanation 🤝

[dia3olik]

Hey @whyboris ! Any news on this? When do you plan to release a new version with native Apple Silicon Support? Thanks!!!!!

[whyboris]

Hey @dia3olik - sorry it's been such a busy year (I'm still finishing up the pro-bono work I'm doing with utilitiarianism.net 😅) - and still haven't finished installing the kitchen in the house my wife and I bought and moved into 1.5 years ago 😓 - so much to do, so little time.

I am aiming to release the patch/bugfix release of VHA by March 2023 - whenever the next release happens is when I'll be adding the M1 version. As of now the app works just fine on an M1 Mac (I tested) 👌 -- but the dedicated M1 build should be better still 😊

🤞 hoping to have things done by March 2023 - thank you for your patience 🙇

ps - the app builds on M1 Mac just great -- it's just a matter for me to merge in some more PRs, add some code to clean up some minor bugs in the Issues queue, and just craft a new release (which is a small hassle too - creating 10 different executables, updating website and other stuff -- will take at least a day of work 😓)