How far has Microsoft fallen?

Re:How far has Microsoft fallen? by mtgx on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @02:13AM (#4936426)

Linux for ARM supports legacy x86 apps. And I don't think there's any major performance penalty there. Sure, it's not very fast on pre-Cortex A15 hardware, but that can be said about Windows RT, too. Windows RT is actually a lot slower when processing stuff (up to 3x slower) than Android and iOS (not talking about animations, which are pretty simple and handled by the GPU).

Also in the Linux world they are working on improving the performance and battery efficiency with kernels 3.7 and 3.8, and they will keep improving them in future versions, as they are only at very early stages of ARM support. I think the 64 bit ARMv8 chips will get great support for Linux from day one, when they come out in 2014, as support for them it's already being baked into the kernels right now.

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Re:How far has Microsoft fallen? by Nursie on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @05:14AM (#4936864)

"Linux for ARM supports legacy x86 apps"

?!?

I'm a huge linux fan but I've never heard of this outside of some sort of processor-emulation layer and full VM which wouldn't give you the world's best performance.

Have I missed something?

--edit--

Did you mean support for older apps is (comparatively) easy because they can be rebuilt from source?

Also I'm not really sure what you mean by linux support for ARM being in the early stages. I've been running linux on a variety of ARM devices for ~8 years now, since the NSLU2 days. Good support for a huge variety of ARM SoCs has been in place for many years now.

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