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Box86, an x86 app player for ARM with native rendering performance

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Re: Box86, an x86 app player for ARM with native rendering performance

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I understand your perspective, but I think it's GREAT that it targets Arm. If anything finally can and finally should replace x86/64, to usher in a new era of power-efficient computing, it should be Arm.

Just curious why you think that? ARM cores can sip power when idle, but the story for performance-per-watt under load appears less clear.

> the story for performance-per-watt under load appears less clear.

Is this referring specifically to their in-order cores (Cortex-A53, A35), out-of-order cores (Cortex-A72, A73), or big.LITTLE configurations in general? *

Thinking more broadly, the next era of power-efficient computing may depend more on heterogeneous architectures than the CPU alone. The Arm ML Processor IP and corresponding offerings from competitors play a large role in this.

* Can be generalized to custom cores designed by NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Samsung, Apple, and other vendors.

Re: Box86, an x86 app player for ARM with native rendering performance

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Where does he get these games? Are they freeware?

https://www.gog.com/game/airline_tycoon_deluxe https://www.gog.com/game/world_of_goo (was also free on Epic Game Store a while ago, plus in a million different bundles) for example. The games used as tests seem to be lower end indie titles that can be found DRM-free (because you don't also want to have to work around that)

Nice - thanks
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