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GeekyBear10/11/20240 repliesview on HN

Alyssa lays out the reasoning in the linked blog post.

They are running emulated games in their own separate virtual machine, because Intel games expect a 4k page size and the OS is running with a 16k page size.

Virtual Machines require their own chunk if memory overhead, so the resource usage can't help being higher than a native MacOS game's would be.