LyX on Apple Silicon (in a VM)

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Chris,

I have a development version which I run both on arm64 and x86_64.

LyX does not "run" faster. The graphical front end on the M1 feels
zippier, indeed, but while typing and enditing it does not make that
much aof a differnece.

The limiting factor is the (Lua)LaTeX running in the background.  I use
the MacTexBasic 2021 which has universal binaries and they are indeed
(much) faster on the arm64.

greetings, el

On 2021-12-21 01:50 , Christopher Menzel via lyx-users wrote:
> LyX folk,
> 
> I haven’t seen any reports about running LyX on Apple Silicon so I
> thought I’d post a datapoint.  I compiled LyX (with QT 5) from the
> latest source under Kubuntu 20.04 for ARM in a Parallels VM running on
> a 14” MacBook Pro with a 10-core M1 Pro chip.  The compile ran
> flawlessly (once I got the package dependencies and configure flags
> right).  Unsurprisingly, even though running in a VM, the Linux
> version is much faster than the current MacOS version which, because
> it is an Intel app, requires Rosetta 2 to run on the M1.  Compiling a
> technical 135 page document with a large associated BiBTeX file as a
> PDF with the Mac version takes about 50 seconds; the Linux version
> takes 15 (most of that being biber processing the bibliography info).
> And updating a change with the Mac version takes about 10 seconds,
> whereas it takes about 4 seconds with the Linux version.
> 
> Chris Menzel
>