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GaryExplains - x86 Emulation on Arm CPUs - Better on Windows or macOS? (www.youtube.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

because ARM's weaker memory model than x86 is a major challenge for translating multi-threaded code with low overhead

As someone else here has pointed out, Windows on ARM emulation ignores this by default and just accepts the possibility of wrong results or app crashes.

So, you're likely not going to see much performance difference, but...