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Microsoft says “Prism” translation layer does for Arm PCs what Rosetta did for Macs (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, this won't get people to get hardware that looks horribly slow because everything needs to run through a translation layer. They do have the sources. They could just recompile them for the new hardware. If their sources are not total crap.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I'd expect there's quite a lot of assembly and endianness-dependent stuff here and there. It's Microsoft. Their culture is about pride of things being arcane-complex inside, cause if you can untangle that, you are a good programmer. They think that. I think they think that. Maybe they are just vile.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

You may be spot on with that. Though the assembly part can be fixed by code translation at compile time. Endianess and shitty programming habits are another thing that the cross-executor must deal with, too, so maybe this has been covered already. Or it will blow up in their faces, anyway.

[–] kalleboo@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Windows NT historically ran on lots of CPU architectures, PowerPC, MIPS, Alpha, Itanium, etc, and that included the bundled software like 3D Pinball. I would have expected it to still be quite portable.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago

20 years have passed.

[–] AProfessional@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Both arches are little endian btw.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure they have found something to make the port problematic.

[–] enleeten@discuss.online 1 points 10 months ago

I mean, it's a Microsoft product.