misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoMicrosoft says “Prism” translation layer does for Arm PCs what Rosetta did for Macsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square102fedilinkarrow-up1175arrow-down111
arrow-up1164arrow-down1external-linkMicrosoft says “Prism” translation layer does for Arm PCs what Rosetta did for Macsarstechnica.commisk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square102fedilink
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoI’m not sure that means anything. For it to be hardware accelerated you would need a amd64 cpu
minus-squarevoxel@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-24 months agoboth apple m cpus and snapdragon have hardware magic to make translation viable when paired with usermode tools like Rozetta or Prism otherwise it’s painfully slow, as demonstrated by both box64 and fex.
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoDo you have a source for that? It seems like that would defeat the purpose of using ARM.
not hw accelerated
I’m not sure that means anything. For it to be hardware accelerated you would need a amd64 cpu
both apple m cpus and snapdragon have hardware magic to make translation viable when paired with usermode tools like Rozetta or Prism
otherwise it’s painfully slow, as demonstrated by both box64 and fex.
Do you have a source for that? It seems like that would defeat the purpose of using ARM.