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hypercube33today at 5:31 PM1 replyview on HN

I have the 8 gen 3 and wsl and hyperv work fine just can't really use x86 binaries / containers / operating systems.


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jsheardtoday at 5:37 PM

I think the performance of x86 VMs would be pretty poor anyway due to the high overhead of TSO emulation. Windows ARM doesn't have the benefit of hardware assistance like macOS does, and the tricks that Microsoft came up with to mitigate the impact rely on metadata that only MSVC emits, so anything compiled with GCC or LLVM would always hit their emulators slow path.

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