Friday 25th March 2022
Is the Mac version of LayoutEditor native for Apple's M-series processors? If not, are there any plans for it to be eventually?
Jürgen LayoutEditorFull Friday 25th March 2022
The current Mac package of the LayoutEditor is for Intel processors and tested on M-series processors without any issues so far. Internal libraries the LayoutEditor uses are not yet all available for native Apple's M-series processors. Once that is the case we will provide a package for it as well.
Andrew
Monday 28th March 2022
Great, thanks. Do you have a sense of how the performance is on M-series? (I often do some computationally intensive things with LayoutEditor and am considering a new Mac.) Is it the sort of thing that will get better slowly as the internal packages become native? Thanks for you responses.
Jürgen LayoutEditorFull Monday 28th March 2022
The Intel simulator of the M-series processors is very good. I expect only a small difference between the Intel-Simulator mode and the native application. But we will see only the native version is available.
Jürgen LayoutEditorFull Sunday 29th May 2022
A first development version for MacOS universal build natively supporting arm64 (M-series processors) and x86_64 (Intel-processors) architecture is now available for download:
[https://layouteditor.com/download?release=latest](https://layouteditor.com/download?release=latest)
It will require MacOS 12.3 or higher. Any feedback on this package is welcome!
For Apple systems running MacOS 12.2 or earlier, please use the Intel package.