I had the privilege to get one of the new MacBook Pros with an M1 chip very early. Because of the new ARM architecture of the new processor I try to look if most of my tools and programs already run that architecture.
Today I checked if my node version is already running on the ARM builds of NodeJS.
To quickly check this for yourself open up a terminal and enter node
to open up the node repl. Inside enter process.arch
this will return either x64
or arm64
. As one can guess the latter shows that NodeJS already runs on the ARM version. x64
means that NodeJS still runs via Rosetta 2 emulation.
NodeJS started experimental support of native arm64 builds in version 15.3.0.
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