122
submitted 1 year ago by ijeff@lemdro.id to c/technology@beehaw.org
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] interolivary@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Doesn't Microsoft have something similar to Apple's Rosetta 2 JIT x86 -> ARM code translation kajigger? I could swear I've seen something like that mentioned

Edit: not sure whether it was WOW64 that I read about, that seems to only work for running 32 bit intel code on ARM (although I have no idea if that's actually a problem or not when running modern Windows binaries, the last Windows I ran was Vista)

[-] aard@kyu.de 1 points 1 year ago

They have, and in my experience it works nicer than Rosetta.

Windows 10 had it limited to 32bit binaries (but Windows 10 on ARM is generally very broken). Windows 11 can handle both 32 and 64bit emulation.

[-] interolivary@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I recall it somehow being better designed than Rosetta but I can't dig up where I read about this

[-] aard@kyu.de 2 points 1 year ago

Don't want to go into too much details - from a high level perspective the Windows version integrates better into the overall system. In Rosetta, once you're in the emulation layer it can be rather complicated to execute native components from there. In Windows - with some exceptions - that's not a problem.

this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2023
122 points (100.0% liked)

Technology

37702 readers
279 users here now

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS