Do you actually have any experience with systems emulation, JIT/AOT compilation, Apple's x86->ARM hardware assistance that it's JIT interfaces offer, etc? Or ar

Do you actually have any experience with systems emulation, JIT/AOT compilation, Apple's x86->ARM hardware assistance that it's JIT interfaces offer, etc? Or are you just speaking off the cuff in a very general manner? Because it very much sounds like the latter. I have, quite extensively. I can assure you, that the source set they are using most definitely does use all the "tricks" (the chief two being threaded code [no, not that threading] and preoptimized jump tables). I can also assure you that losing the hardware acceleration offered by Apple's extensions and the general performance boost JIT/AOT offer is much more than 80%. But, sure. For argument's sake, let's accept your (incorrect) premise. Taking a 1ghz potential emulated target processor down to 200mhz is a fairly drastic drop. Disallowing a whole slew of modern code/target OSes and verging the usability on nil.