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Re:Windows for Arm on M1 Mac Successfully Virtualized by TimTheTinker on Friday November 27, 2020 @04:49PM (#25232870)
> specialized instructions for x86 translation

That sounds absolutely fascinating. Do you have any references I could read further on that?

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Re:Windows for Arm on M1 Mac Successfully Virtualized by bonzini on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:38PM (#25233179)
They have a special mode for strongly-ordered memory accesses (IBM did something similar on POWER, also for the sake of porting x86 applications).
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