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That's almost what WINE does which is, apparently, not an emulator. Small reimplementation of Windows userspace and translates DirectX to Vulkan/OpenGL. So if I do x86 -> ARM binary translation AOT and run that with WINE, is it an emulator?

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According to WINE itself, WINE is an emulator.

Ultimately there's a spectrum between emulation and native code and where you draw the line is an arbitrary and subjective choice.

I'd say a reimplementation of a software library, or rather, a port to the new architecture wouldn't really count as emulation. If you can translate the game code itself why not the libraries it depends on?

If WINE is not an emulator then YAML ain't a markup language

you would expect wine to be translating the executable in some way if you considered it emulation, but wine loads and runs the binaries as they are. it provides a PE/COFF loader and linux-native replacements for windows apis. the machine code of the original executable is running directly on the processor.

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