Add dedicated macOS binary for Apple Silicon machines (boosting performance significantly)#1925
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So turns out that "universal" builds are fine, we can release them and the users can install them, with the security warning, just as the x64 ones, but for the new arm64 builds Apple enforces notarization and signing, so we have to either do it or ask the users to run I will put that PR on draft for now and try to fix the notarization and signing process. If I don't get it to work this week I will push for the universal build for now, till we get the notarization and signing fixed, as having the application running smoothly is more important than having a light build file. |
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Till now, we were only generating the x64 build, which works on Apple Silicon machines, but with a considerable performance impact.
On my tests, this dedicated arm64 binary decreased the startup time from 50 seconds to 3 seconds in a cold boot and from 20 seconds to 1 second in a hot test (opening a second time). Significant performance improvements are also expected on runtime, as using the x64 build on arm64 machines requires Rosetta which basically makes the JIT run twice, among other things.
Anyone running Cockpit on Apple Silicon macOS machines should upgrade to this new version.
Fix #902
To be merged after #1934