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Everyone's always had this idea, and it has very rarely proven to be terribly practical in reality. The few times that VMs of different hardware tend to be prac
by InclinedPlane 13y ago
Everyone's always had this idea, and it has very rarely proven to be terribly practical in reality. The few times that VMs of different hardware tend to be practical are when there is an enormous gap in performance between the emulated hardware and the host hardware (such as with old game consoles and arcade hardware).
- jonmrodriguez 13y agoYeah, you're right. It would not match this use case.
- zurn 13y agoI don't think it has been tried too many times in practice, because software binary translation is so proven (eg. like in android x86, or rosetta on mac, or fx!32 on nt, etc etc). Itanium is the only one that comes to mind. Any others? Then there are several that have lower level "programmable microcode" kind of level in the hardware, ranging from the Transmeta stuff to mainframe-era writable control store...