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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by pkulak on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:26PM (#23604991)
On the other hand, it probably doesn't use much CPU just because it's single threaded. No game ever uses more than 10% of my 16-thread CPU. But that also means that emulation could seriously tank single-thread performance and ruin the game.
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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by monocasa on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:32PM (#23605110)
It might be the other way around. The might have gotten around the big issue with running arbitrary x86 code on ARM (the way weaker memory model) by pinning all x86 threads in a process to a single core. Which would be unfortunate.
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