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Junaid Abdurahman26

Durban, South Africa

I'm a Computer Science student at UKZN, self taught iOS Developer and passionate automotive enthusiast.

Scholarships

Junaid has been awarded a WWDC scholarship in 2021. Here is the submission that got him there.

In 2021, applicants were tasked with building an interactive playground to showcase their creativity and technical abilities. Here’s how Junaid describes his winning submission.

For my submission I decided to explore the differences between the ARM and x86 instruction sets since Apple is now moving to the ARM platform. While it is true that the lines between RISC and CISC have blurred in recent times it still remains a fundamental difference between the two architectures.