Does real hardware convert x86 to ARM ?
No. So remind me again what your point is ?
No. So remind me again what your point is ?
The Android emulator allows you to run applications that were compiled for ARM because it translates the ARM instructions to x86. This is really CPU intensive and can eat a lot of memory as well.
Technologies like Intel HAXM[0] speed this up, which is how the x86 Android images manage to be so much faster than the regular ARM images.
[0]: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-hardware-acce...