Rosetta 2 is Apple’s key to making the ARM transition less painful

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I'm really curious how performant Rosetta translated x86 applications would be, especially considering Transmeta's non-succesful attempt of doing something similar. It sounds like the key difference is that Rosetta would do it ahead of time instead of real-time like Transmeta?

Sounds like what ARDI's Executor did on the PC and Next systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executor_(software)

It translated Mac 68K code to native code. Like WINE does.

It was released as open source under the MIT license and this is the most active fork: https://github.com/autc04/executor

It needs no ROM or Mac System files.

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