Why can't these emulate X86?

>>59943432
ARM is fucking trash and has always been trash.

Can't wait until RISC-V rapes it into extinction.

>>59943432
Why would they need to?

Pretty sure you can compile qemu on ARM.

>>59943432
They can.

>>59943432
Licensing. The only reason Intel licensed to Via is because they had a little bit of leverage so they got a license deal for a few years. The only reason Intel licenses to AMD is because they had enough leverage by doing so many cross licensing deals.

>>59943500
>The only reason Intel licenses to AMD
I thought AMD licensed x64 to Intel?

>>59943449
this
arm is a fucking clusterfuck

>>59943500
AMD got their x86 license because IBM required two sources for every component.

>>59943527
They did.

>>59943432
They can. They don't because intel is usually much more powerful.

>>59943432
Qualcomm is now partnering with Microsoft to bring x86 Windows compatibility to Snapdragon 835.
It will be nice to have another real competitor for Intel.

They've been able to do that for a while now but there's a huge performance penalty for doing so.

Anyway ARM chips are fucking worthless even if they had no x86 emulation performance penalty for even laptops. They have utter dogshit IPC and a mess of binary blobs and shit.

>>59943449

whatever man

some ARMs are more beautiful than anything you've ever dreamed of in your entire worthless life

>>59944895
"another"

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>>59943432
They can.

>>59943449
ARM is based on the RISC instruction set though. IIRC it literally means Advanced RISC Machines.

>>59944895
What a mess.

>>59945420
RISC itself isn't an instruction set, it's a type of instruction set.

>>59945420
There is no "RISC instruction set", RISC means "Reduced Instruction Set Computer/Computing", it is not a specific instruction set.

RISC-V and ARM are both totally different RISC architectures with totally different instruction sets, but ARM is ancient proprietary garbage that needs to die and go to Hell whereas RISC-V is free and libre and modern and could actually compete with x86_64.

Anyone care to red pill arm?

>>59943527
The chicken or the egg

>>59945637
>could actually compete with x86_64
Didn't they say that about PPC?

>>59943449
anti-ARM shill thread detected

>>59946128
They did, and it did.

>>59943432
because there's no need.
because microsoft is dead in mobile

>>59946564
And who uses PPC architecture currently?

>>59946585
It's pretty much only present in embedded devices now. I said it competed, not that it won.

Microsoft brought win32 emulation to ARM Windows 10, but idk if that's emulating something in Windows, or the x86 instruction set.

>>59943432
They can, but it'll be slow af

>>59943500
x86 needs no license, its extensions are what actually need to be licensed (see SSE and AMD64). And licensing has nothing to do with emulation in this case.

>>59945637
I like you

>>59946634
Bit of both, it had some changes made so the kernel was actually compiled to ARM, but it also maps some x86 instructions into ARM ones

>>59943432
They can. It was often what Alpha/PPC/MIPS Windows NT workstations did in the '90s, for example, but you've probably never heard of any of those systems because they were slower than shit at it and nobody bought them.

And that was when we were dealing with high-end systems that ripped even the best x86 boxes money could buy a new asshole in many metrics, not angry birds machines.

>>59943432
because it's not some VLIW architecture where it would at least be semi feasable to have instruction emulation that isn't complete dogshit.

RISC will change everything

>>59947588
I miss 1992 as well anon

>>59947588
It did, even x86 is RISC at the core

how long until a CPU uses electromagnetic waves to transport data, we could solve O(n^2) problems in O(1)
its like living in an age were we know how to teleport humans at light speed but we still use 1D roads with electron speed cars

>>59944895
Pretty sure they ended up just doing it all software side. If they wanted they could probably run it on a first gen surface RT.

>>59943432
The x86 has many, many more transistors. Part of the reason it wastes so much electricity and gets so hot. So why would it want to?

>>59948727
Here we have someone that has no idea what big O is about
>>59951479
And here we have someone that doesn't understands what emulation and computer architecture is about

>>59943500
>Via will never make another x86 core again
;_;

>>59943432
x86 is ded literally
>inb4: muh console videogaemz

>>59946585
Nintendo used to for the GC + it's upgrades (wii and wii u)

>>59952646
Key term being "used to"

>>59943432
they can

>>59946709
couldn't you write a jit emulator?