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To be fair this is also a translation layer and not an emulator.

Prism is an x86 emulator for ARM. If you think that Prism is “a translation layer and not an emulator”, I refer you to the very first word of the second to last paragraph of the submitted article.

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fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That’s assuming the writer knows what they’re talking about. Last line from the second paragraph:

Windows 11 has similar translation capabilities, and with the Windows 11 24H2 update, that app translation technology is getting a name: Prism.

And first line from the third paragraph.

Microsoft says that Prism isn’t just a new name for the same old translation technology.

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- woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  That’s assuming the writer knows what they’re talking about.
  
  Certainly more than you because Prism emulates an x86 CPU and WINE doesn’t, therefore the WINE comparison is still wrong.
  
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  - n2burns@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    This article seems to conflate “emulation” and “translation layer”. I don’t think there is anything that confirms “Prism emulates an x86 CPU”, only that it allows for running x86 code on ARM. This does not inherently require emulation as demonstrated by Rosetta 2, which is a translation layer.
    
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    woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    only that it allows for running x86 code on ARM. This does not inherently require emulation as demonstrated by Rosetta 2, which is a translation layer.
    
    WINE doesn’t “translate” one CPU architecture to another CPU architecture either, so the WINE comparison is still wrong, no mater if CPU translation is called emulation or not. WINE is a wrapper for API calls within the same CPU architecture. That’s it.
    
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