Having worked a lot in assembly and C and such, I imagine it'd probably be a lot easier (and more performant, probably) to write something that translates x86 i

Having worked a lot in assembly and C and such, I imagine it'd probably be a lot easier (and more performant, probably) to write something that translates x86 instructions into x64 instructions. This is really interesting all the same, though, because it enables you to potentially support as many targets as your C compiler supports. I once did something similar by converting the Minecraft server to .NET with IKVM and hooking into its terrain generator.