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Windows 11 Arm PCs are getting even better at emulation with the latest beta build (www.xda-developers.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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This new build of Windows 11 introduces a major upgrade to the Prism emulator that enables support for additional CPU extensions in its emulated x86 processor. These include AVX, AVX2, BMI, FMA, and F16C.

This is big news for ARM Windows laptops. Now according to Microsoft almost every app should be compatible, and they showed Adobe Premiere running fine through emulation.

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[–] stupidcasey 3 points 2 weeks ago

That’s a surprise usually windows updates make things worse.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I rather run native than emulation.

That way I get to use 100% of the power at my disposal, for the product I bought.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Okay then just use an x86 processor?

[–] stoly 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It is very weird how people are coming in to declare their preference on architecture for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Not nowhere as weird as when I asked for a recommendation for something the other day. Poster replied to me nicely, I nicely said thank you, poster upvoted and a third person downvoted my thank you note! 🤣 🙈

[–] stoly 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You'll never know who did the voting. There are some odd people who will just downvote any comment. There are also people who makes bots to do the same. Every chance that some idiot didn't like that you have an opinion, but it may not be that at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

True, could be different factors at play. Let's see if this comment one will get downvoted. Previous one collected 2. 🤣

Who knows, maybe it's just me... 🕳 🛹 😆

[–] Giooschi 12 points 2 weeks ago

Do you apply the same reasoning for software that use javascript, the JVM, the CLR or some other kind of VM?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

That depends on app developers, not MS. Having apps actually work through a translation layer would ease a lot of people's problems when transitioning to ARM though.

[–] stupidcasey 3 points 2 weeks ago

Technically you use more power if you emulate, both electrical power and processing power.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Good for you?

[–] vinyl 1 points 2 weeks ago

What an oxymoron to say.