Start-up eltechs.com annonced virtual machine that allow to run x86 codes on ARM. They say ExaGear Desktop(http://eltechs.com/product/exagear-desktop/) can run even Wine and hence Windows apps. News by Phoronix http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n ... px=MTc2NzE
Don't expect it to do anything stellar... Basically, I'd say Windows 3.1/95 generation-era stuff. You're talking about a 1ghz quad core processor trying to emulate another processor. Figure about a 4 to 1 preformance hit, so around a 250 Mhz Pentium 2/3 or so...
ExaGear is really fast. Off cause nobody can outperform hw limitation and 1Ghz is a limit. ExaGear has overhead around 30%-40%, so it will be like P3 500Mhz. This WinXP era.
Finally, ExaGear Desktop is launched. Regrading performance: another one benchmark was posted on the product page - nbench. The "String sort" test of nbench shows 120% of native ARM performance. This is because of different optimization levels of x86 and ARM gcc compilers, but anyway ...funny
