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Who knows? MS might be obsessed enough with backwards compatibility to pack an emulator in there, like they did with WOW64 (though it would be more difficult to
by kijinbear 16y ago
Who knows? MS might be obsessed enough with backwards compatibility to pack an emulator in there, like they did with WOW64 (though it would be more difficult to write an x86 emulator for ARM).
- rbanffy 16y ago> it would be more difficult to write an x86 emulator for ARM Building an x86 emulator is easy. Building one that can run Windows 8 software at speeds comparable to then current Intel or AMD x86 processors will probably be impossible. There is no such performance gap between ARM and x86.
- TeHCrAzY 16y agoWould the opposite be easier? It might make sense to offer comparability for Windows|ARM executables on Windows|x86, so if you want to hit both platforms, you'd be doing it in ARM. I can see ARM being great for corporate desktops: .net LOB apps work, IE will work, Office will work etc.
- rbanffy 16y agoSure, but one key advantage of Windows is that it has a huge legacy of software that already targets x86 and that would have to be recompiled/reoptimized to ARM. The performance of a built-for-speed x86 is very forgiving. Eclipse runs well enough on my Core i5, but I suspect it would have problems on an energy-efficient ARM.