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Microsoft says “Prism” translation layer does for Arm PCs what Rosetta did for Macs (arstechnica.com)
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[–] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The idea is ARM can be more efficient, which translates as longer battery life and/or faster computers for the end user.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 1 points 5 months ago

Let’s spend all that new-found battery life by translating x86 code to ARM code.