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		bawolff on Nov 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for... 3x the work may still fall under reasonable cost. If architectured properly (big if) you can split up the project appropriately so there is a common core and individual parts for specific OS. Is it extra effort? Sure. Impossible? Definitely not.

WalterBright on Nov 21, 2023 [–]

I've also successfully converted some rather large x86 assembler programs into C, so they could be ported to other platforms. It's quite doable by one person.

(Nobody else wanted the job, but I thought it was fun.)

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