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It's unfortunate that there is so much proprietary software in the wild that is forever stuck targeting x86. If we move past x86 on the desktop in our lifetimes
by Zambyte 2y ago
It's unfortunate that there is so much proprietary software in the wild that is forever stuck targeting x86. If we move past x86 on the desktop in our lifetimes, I bet a large percentage of people using desktops will continue to carry around x86 emulators for the rest of our lives.
- darby_nine 2y agoI imagine most devices with have x86 emulation built in. even obstinately anti-consumer vendors like Apple and Google will fold one day.
- creshal 2y agoSo far the only ARM vendor that bothered with hardware accelerated x86 emulation is... Apple. Microsoft somehow still can't figure out how to do the same, and Google for the most part can just ignore it, since neither ChromeOS nor Android are fighting in the same market.
- darby_nine 2y ago> So far the only ARM vendor that bothered with hardware accelerated x86 emulation is... Apple. Great, so let me access the hardware I paid for and throw the App Store out the window. They should be paying me for using that crap.
- tambourine_man 2y agoThe amount of assembly code is getting smaller in absolute and relative terms everyday. We've been moving code up the stack where it is mostly platform neutral for decades. Each transition makes the next one easier. Take the Mac, for instance. - 68k -> PPC: terribly painful, lots of ASM, emulation. - PPC -> x86: hard, but mostly done in 2/3 years. - PPC -> ARM: what transition?
- neallindsay 2y agoQEMU works great for legacy applications.