# Julia M2 support

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-m2-support/85895>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [August 17, 2022, 8:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-m2-support/85895 "2022-08-17T20:57:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![jj-404](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jj-404/32/34532_2.png) [@jj-404](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jj-404)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 8:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-m2-support/85895/1 "2022-08-17T20:57:04Z")

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Hi,  
Just wanted to know what’s the current status of support for the M2 processor?

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**Author:** ![jling](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jling/32/212909_2.png) [@jling](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jling)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 8:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-m2-support/85895/2 "2022-08-17T20:58:01Z")

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should be as good as M1? [https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/mac/aarch64/1.8/julia-1.8.0-rc4-macaarch64.dmg](https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/mac/aarch64/1.8/julia-1.8.0-rc4-macaarch64.dmg)

I mean in any case you have rosetta

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**Author:** ![George9000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/george9000/32/23619_2.png) [@George9000](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/George9000)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 9:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-m2-support/85895/3 "2022-08-17T21:32:46Z")

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Over the last 8 months, I’ve run 1.8 and now 1.9-dev natively on an M1 on a daily basis. Early issues with crashes have resolved. Quite happy with performance. After installing XCode from the App Store, Julia 1.9 also [builds](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia#building-julia) without trouble.

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**Author:** ![jj-404](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jj-404/32/34532_2.png) [@jj-404](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jj-404)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 9:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-m2-support/85895/4 "2022-08-17T21:43:24Z")

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Thanks, do you happen to know what is the current status of gpu programming on mac?

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**Author:** ![George9000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/george9000/32/23619_2.png) [@George9000](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/George9000)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 9:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-m2-support/85895/5 "2022-08-17T21:57:40Z")

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Take a look a [this](https://juliagpu.org/post/2022-06-24-metal/index.html) post.