@Waddizzle wrote:
Just buy a computer with an Intel chipset.
Apple has switched to Arm. When writing in a high level language, it is not that difficult to switch chip architectures if the compilers are mature enough in their support.
Supporting Android instead of Linux is more difficult because Android is oriented toward touch screens instead of keyboard and mouse. Android uses a Linux kernel, but the user interface is very different.
One of the advantages of the AMD64 architecture over Arm64 is the ease of updating microcode in the Intel and AMD chips. Bugs in the chip design can be fixed later with a firmware update. One of the advantages of the Arm64 architecture is that it is easily customized by the computer vendor, but that also comes with a compatibility risk. Arm64 is usually also less expensive than AMD64 for the same performance level, but the on chip caching of memory in the Intel and AMD chips may give a real world performance advantage that does not show up in benchmarks.
In the midst of antitrust, Intel and AMD cross licensed the 64 bit architecture invented by AMD and Intel dropped their incompatible 64 bit architecture.
While Nvidia GPUs receive all of the press coverage, the parallelism built into the Intel and AMD chips is very good. ARM64 also has very good on chip parallelism in some implementations.
I think if DPP were to be modernized, then it would be good to support Linux which runs on many architectures and take advantage of libgtk for portability. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK
One of the biggest problems with DPP now is the caching code which was written for an earlier time when computers had less RAM.
