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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 13 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Were they emulating the x86 code in realtime, or pre-translating it to RISC-V in the way that Apple’s Rosetta 2 does for ARM? If the former, that is indeed impressive performance.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 23 points 2 months ago

I don't even care. The fact that we're at a point where it runs means a whole bunch of "step one"s have been succefully taken.

[–] k_rol@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

Besides Box64, which was used to emulate x86 instructions in general, Wine and DXVK helped fill the gaps using Linux instead of Windows.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

The original blog post (linked in the article) refers to this as a DynaRec, i.e. a dynamic recompiler. So it's not exactly emulating, but nor is it the ahead-of-time recompilation that Rosetta 2 can do.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

Believe it or not, the article answers that question. The linked blog post from the devs has even more detail.