> emulating or translating apps compiled for a different architecture is necessarily going to be irritatingly slow and somewhat incompatible at best While it w

> emulating or translating apps compiled for a different architecture is necessarily going to be irritatingly slow and somewhat incompatible at best While it wasn't as popular, Palm OS did this beautifully when going from Motorola 68k based device to ARM. Granted the executables are tiny (usually 10 to 64k in size or smaller), but the execution was flawless. In this comparison, I am not nitpicking on emulation vs translation vs JIT. Whatever it is, the 68k binary ran on ARM without a recompilation.