On: Microsoft planning to enable x86 on ARM64 emulation in Windows 10 by Fall 2017

[rwmj]

qemu-user can already do that too. On Linux you have to put a magic string into an /etc/binfmt.d file (on Fedora at least, the qemu-user package does that for you).

Here's running aarch64 binaries on x86_64 transparently: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2013/12/22/how-to-run-aarch64-bin...

[basch → rwmj]

isnt that backwards? this is x86 code on arm devices.

[jdub → basch]

Works the same way with numerous combinations of architectures, thanks to qemu.