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WoW64 just handles DLL loading/memory mapping/kernel interfaces. It doesn’t do binary translation of the user code at all. Windows x86 on Windows ARM does binar

WoW64 just handles DLL loading/memory mapping/kernel interfaces. It doesn’t do binary translation of the user code at all. Windows x86 on Windows ARM does binary translation.

rstat1 3y ago
from MSDN or Microsoft Learn (w/e): "WOW64 is the x86 emulator that allows 32-bit Windows-based applications to run seamlessly on 64-bit Windows" Sounds like emulation to me.
- lproven 3y ago
  Thunking is not emulation. Thunking has been widespread since OS/2 1 in the mid-1980s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win32s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win32s The original wikipedia article on Thunks has been generalized into uselessness. :-(