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jakogut on Jan 29, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Evolution of the QEMU Translator

> if you wanted performance you'd probably be better off starting from scratch with an emulator design that cared about performance and which was really clear about its use-cases

See box86:

https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86

stsquad on Feb 1, 2021 [–]

AIUI that is mainly achieved by running the native library functions.Given how much time you spend in library functions I'm not surprised it has an edge over the full translation of the application.

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