It’s more like a built-in hardware emulation mode than anything else. Modern ARM chips use out of order execution as the default, whereas x86 uses ordered execution as the default. M-series and Snapdragon X chips have a little flag that can be passed to tell the hardware to run in in-order mode instead of out-of-order mode.
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TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoIIRC, the M chips also have a couple of specific hardware accelerators for some parts of x86 code that ARM devices would usually struggle with. That’s something that other ARM chips (presumably) don’t have.
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
jose1324@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
X Elite has those same tricks