[TUHS] machine code translation,as mental architecture models

Lars Brinkhoff lars at nocrew.org
Wed Jul 10 14:59:59 AEST 2024


John Levine writes:
> It used to be harder because programs would store into the instruction
> stream but these days code is all read-only it's quite standard. I'm
> typing this on my M1 Macbook using an editor that thinks it's running
> on an x86.

Note that Apple silicon has special hardware - not in standard ARM
devices - to accomodate the x86 memory model.  I don't know the detals
of Rosetta 2, but I believe this hardware is an important component to
make it work.


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