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> emulates Windows 11 inside iPadOS by translating Windows code into ARM instructions Do they mean x86 instructions, or Windows system calls? Regardless, there
by gblargg 2y ago
> emulates Windows 11 inside iPadOS by translating Windows code into ARM instructions
Do they mean x86 instructions, or Windows system calls? Regardless, there is a Windows 11 ARM64 build so I wonder why they aren't using this.
- walterbell 2y agoFirst sentence of the article: Windows 11 ARM running on an M2 iPad Air using emulation
- gblargg 2y agoAnd it talks about "translating Windows code into ARM", and using a just-in-time compiler. It sounds like perhaps it's "compiling" ARM into ARM, because the original ARM can't be run due to Apple's restrictions.
- volemo 2y agoI wonder why they decided to run the ARM version of Windows though. If one emulates, does it really matter what platform to emulate? Isn’t Windows for x86 still quite a bit more useful (e.g. doesn’t have to run a second layer of emulation to run x86 apps)?
- volemo 2y ago> Regardless, there is a Windows 11 ARM64 build so I wonder why they aren't using this. Because iPadOS doesn’t support virtualisation, so they have to emulate something.