Rosetta 2 is not emulating an Intel CPU. It recompiles the binary to ARM when you run the app for the first time. It also does on-the-fly compilation of JITed c

Rosetta 2 is not emulating an Intel CPU. It recompiles the binary to ARM when you run the app for the first time. It also does on-the-fly compilation of JITed code, too. Actual emulation would be much slower.