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>legacy x86 Windows applications being in many cases replaced with webpage and smart phone applications, it looks the industry as a whole is finally moving past
by willis936 6y ago
>legacy x86 Windows applications being in many cases replaced with webpage and smart phone applications, it looks the industry as a whole is finally moving past x86 and its bloated instruction set
Similar predictions about lack of importance of legacy support made over the past 40 years have not borne out. Performant x86 emulation is an absolute must for a replacement ISA.
- strenholme 6y agoA lot has changed over the last 40 years: • Smartphones • iPads and Android tablets • Chromebooks • Game consoles • The Phoenix-like return of the Mac (About half of the shops I have seen in the last decade were mixed or Mac shops) Point being, it’s a different world than it was 20 years ago, when one needed to run on Windows to be a viable software product. Anyway, the M1 has excellent x86 emulation; it’s 50% as fast (if not better) as native ARM code. And, yes, I felt Windows for ARM was not viable just 10 years ago: https://www.samiam.org/blog/20101224.html https://www.samiam.org/blog/20101224.html But a lot has changed since then.