For history this was a major milestone in x86 binary translation, Digital FX!32: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/usenix-nt97/ful

For history this was a major milestone in x86 binary translation, Digital FX!32: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/usenix-nt97/full_papers/chernoff/chernoff.pdf https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin... Some apps run faster than the fastest available x86 at the time, and sometimes significantly faster like the Byte benchmark cited above. Of course it helped that the chip was sugnificantly faster than leading x86 chips in the first place.