News x64 Emulation Coming to Windows 10 on Arm Platforms

[Admin]

Microsoft blurs the line between Arm and x86 on Windows 10.

x64 Emulation Coming to Windows 10 on Arm Platforms : Read more

 

[setx]

It would be interesting to see how various DRM and anti-cheat systems will behave under emulation.

 

[digitalgriffin]

Microsoft blurs the line between Arm and x86 on Windows 10.

x64 Emulation Coming to Windows 10 on Arm Platforms : Read more

ARM has always suffered under emulation unless you are running an Intermediate code (IL code) program, like .NET/JAVA without direct ASM.

For example, under CISC hardware you might expect an AVX instruction to be done in 10 clock ticks. Under ARM that could take considerably longer as a number of AVX instructions have to be emulated. AVX instructions are common today, but require a lot of power hungry circuits which goes against ARMs efficiency ethos.

 

[digitalgriffin]

It would be interesting to see how various DRM and anti-cheat systems will behave under emulation.

Bla ha ha ha.

I seriously doubt they will handle it well. Part of some anti cheats is testing timing on certain operations or command chains to see if there's anything in the path that doesn't look like a standard binary.

 

[jakjawagon]

Now if they bring the price down closer to similarly performing Intel/AMD machines then they might actually be worth getting.