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okanattoday at 3:28 PM0 repliesview on HN

Is this actually surprising? Once you use stuff like vectorization you want to get as much performance out of a system. If you're not natively compiling for a system, you won't get any performance.

Using AVX2 and using an emulator have contradictory goals. Of course there can be a better emulator or actually matching hardware design (since both Apple and Microsoft actually exploit the similar register structure between ARM64 and x86_64). However, this means you have increased complexity and reduced reliability / predictability.