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throwaway27448today at 1:01 AM1 replyview on HN

Hm. What is the utility of this distinction?

Anyway, qemu certainly seems like it would fall under your definition of "emulator" despite obviously dynamically recompiling.


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dmitrygrtoday at 1:30 AM

which is why i said "static recompiler" and not just "recompiler"

distinction is that an emulator is much simpler, while a static recompiler is a lot more work and thus ~30% more cool

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