• boonhet@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Apple did the same again with their ARM migration and in my experience it worked great. I believe Microsoft also has a solution for running x86 software on ARM.

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      3 months ago

      But Apple’s solution isn’t pure software emulation, the SoC has special hardware inside to make it translate a lot faster.

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        3 months ago

        The original Rosetta, which was emulating PPC on x86 is directly comparable to the situation of PS3-game-on-PS4 hardware. I was able to play Halo CE for Mac on x86 with Rosetta and it felt native.

        The point is that this isn’t a limitation of technology, this was a decision on Sony’s part.