Tech News: CircleCI macOS Executor Pals Up With M1 to Boost Speed

CircleCI, continuous integration and delivery platform (CI/CD), launched a new resource class for their macOS executor. Now it supports Apple Silicon M1. The company announced this on its Twitter and blog:

The CircleCI’ s macOS execution environment is used to test, build, and deploy macOS and iOS applications. The macOS executor provides access to iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV simulators.

Platform’s first cloud-based M1 resource is to bring users up to 2 times more speed when building. In addition it is promised to improve end-to-end testing experience, including GPU tests. All this thanks to 8 CPU/12 GB RAM and built-in hardware acceleration to transfer tasks typically done by software running on the CPU to the GPU.

Now users having the Scale annual plan are already able to build with M1 in their pipelines. For this, they need to update to the dedicated configuration file on CircleCI.

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