turing complete with a stack of 0xdeadbeef
I recently discovered, while setting up my first Apple Silicon Mac, that Xcode does not have access to your shell environment. But there’s one caveat to that. (Thanks to Boris for confirming!) This post will hopefully be a reminder to my future self when I encounter this issue again.
After setting up my new M3 MacBook Pro, I decided to do some quick performance comparisons with my old Intel machine. Anecdotally, I would have told you that it is insanely faster but seeing the data made my jaw drop.
I typically try to keep devices for as long as I can — historically, that’s been around 5-6 years for laptops. During the Intel era of MacBooks, the year-over-year spec bumps were usually not impactful enough to justify more frequent upgrades. However, the transition to Apple Silicon has changed that. I recently upgraded to my first M-series MacBook Pro.