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> The m1 does not emulate x86. You literally don't know what you're talking about.

What is it doing when it runs x86_64 binaries then?

Rosetta 2 kicks in, performs a JIT/AOT translation of the x86 instructions to ARM instructions, executes those, and caches the resulting ARM binary for later use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software)

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