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Apple put some special sauce in the M1 to help make rosetta fast. Support for the x86 TSO memory model, for one thing.

• marcan_42 6y ago
  Also ARM now has a bunch of instructions that are blatantly there for efficient x86 emulation, though ARM won't tell you that in the docs.
  • jtl999 6y ago
    IBM POWER9 supports some memory ordering instructions that (as I understand) would in theory be useful for x86 emulation, but a) I'm unsure if anyone actually uses them and b) They are removed from POWER10
  • saagarjha 6y ago
    I don't think Apple generates those, though.
• gandutraveler 6y ago
  Can that secret sauce just be to slow down Intel based macs in the OS layer?