The company that built the original Rosetta, actually apple branding on top of QuickTransit, actually could do x86 to x86 translation in their product and found

The company that built the original Rosetta, actually apple branding on top of QuickTransit, actually could do x86 to x86 translation in their product and found that even when low hanging fruit was theoretically available it was challenging to extract. I don’t think the x86 stuff we are talking about is easy to extract. Instead this seems like something that wants an intermediate code + install time specializer a la mainframes.