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This is cool, but I can't help but think that running a VM on an iPad or iPhone would be horrendously slow.
by neilsimp1 7y ago
This is cool, but I can't help but think that running a VM on an iPad or iPhone would be horrendously slow.
- akhilcacharya 7y agoThe iPad Pro is very impressive, here a video of one playing Half Life 1 in XP using UTM [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O19dNVTBCAs&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O19dNVTBCAs&feature=youtu.be
- hinkley 7y agoHave you played Civ VI on an iPad? Except for being slightly harder to click on things (and no keyboard shortcuts) it plays the same as the desktop version. Same UI and graphics.
- anonsivalley652 7y agoNice. Printed on electrons from a cheap(er), used iPad Pro 10.5" over 4G LTE
- nfoz 7y agoSure but if it's to emulate a computer from 1985 with half a meg of RAM, it might not be so bad :) Edit: my bad, somehow I thought this was UAE the amiga emulator.
- throwaway55554 7y agoWhy would you think that? Apple's processors are very powerful.
- saagarjha 7y agoBecause it is fairly slow :)
- ViViDboarder 7y agoEmulation is slow.
- cable2600 7y agoEmulation is slow because it is emulating a CISC processor with a RISC processor. You are better off running QEMU on your Mac than on your iPad. Does to hard drive limitations in space might not be able to run Windows 10 on an iPad or Macbook Pro.
- saagarjha 7y ago> Emulation is slow because it is emulating a CISC processor with a RISC processor. It’s slow because it’s emulating, period. CISC/RISC has little to do with it.
- hedora 7y agoUnder the hood, intel processors emulate a CISC processor with a RISC processor, so there’s nothing fundamentally slow about that. Staying with the same instruction set (e.g. x86 -> x86) does help with performance though. There’s a discussion of this here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5806589/why-does-intel-hide-internal-risc-core-in-their-processors https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5806589/why-does-intel-h...