> My guess is that the sort of "legacy x86-forever" apps for Windows don't really need much in the way of performance. Think your classic Visual Basic 6 sort of

> My guess is that the sort of "legacy x86-forever" apps for Windows don't really need much in the way of performance. Think your classic Visual Basic 6 sort of thing that a business relies on for decades. In my experience, there's a lot of that kind of software around that was initially designed for a much simpler use-case, and has decades of badly coded features bolted in, with questionable algorithmic choices. It can be unreasonably slow in modern hardware. Old government database sites are the worst examples in my experience. Clearly tested with a few hundred records, but 15 years later there's a few million and nobody bothered to create a bunch of indexes so searches take a couple minutes. I guess this way they can just charge to upgrade the hardware once in a while instead.