It’s worth remembering the x86 emulation on Apple Silicon is as good as it is (reportedly better than most other x86-on-ARM efforts) in part due to CPU features

It’s worth remembering the x86 emulation on Apple Silicon is as good as it is (reportedly better than most other x86-on-ARM efforts) in part due to CPU features Apple added to the host platform for that explicit purpose, from memory ordering[1,2] to obscure flag bits[3]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28731534 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28731534 [2] https://github.com/saagarjha/TSOEnabler https://github.com/saagarjha/TSOEnabler [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33635720 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33635720