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dmd on April 27, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

VMs don't "emulate the CPU".

olalonde on April 27, 2014 [–]

Ah, I thought they did (at least the CPU architecture, not down to the actual transistors/atoms). Wouldn't a full blown VM which also needs to run the OS have more over head than Wine though?

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