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Isn't Bluestack an emulator? This is more similar to Wine/Darling as the Android system runs on a container.

No, it doesn't use any emulation.

Well, except for the JVM of course.

I was wondering how it would compare, performance-wise

It is not an emulator. but for running Android on GNU/Linux, the best solutions are Anbox and Genymotion.