FEX 2305 Emulator On ARM Adds More AVX Instructions, Optimizations

[phoronix]

Phoronix: FEX 2305 Emulator On ARM Adds More AVX Instructions, Optimizations

FEX-Emu 2305 has been released, the open-source project continuing to work on x86_64 atop 64-bit ARM (AArch64) emulation support for being able to enjoy more games on ARM Linux and other software not otherwise natively available...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-Emu-2305-Released

[fong38]

How does FEX fare against box32 / box64 nowadays?

[NomadDemon]

Michael, how about some benchmarks of X86 emulators?

[qarium]

Michael, how about some benchmarks of X86 emulators?

Yes i want benchmarks on rockchip rk3388s and apple M1/m2

[Ladis]

Yes i want benchmarks on rockchip rk3388s and apple M1/m2

I know who will win. I'm more curious in which programs in Linux the native emulators will give better performance than the Linux version of Rosetta 2, which compiles Ahead-of-Time (but relies on the strong memory model support in Apple Silicon - apps could be pinned to one CPU core to avoid the missing feature on Cortex SoCs, thus the benefit of non-Apple emulators would be only in heavily multithread apps).

[NomadDemon]

I know who will win. I'm more curious in which programs in Linux the native emulators will give better performance than the Linux version of Rosetta 2, which compiles Ahead-of-Time (but relies on the strong memory model support in Apple Silicon - apps could be pinned to one CPU core to avoid the missing feature on Cortex SoCs, thus the benefit of non-Apple emulators would be only in heavily multithread apps).

its more about "how well it works", "is it usable to run some simple stuff on e.g. raspberry" "what are the numbers Mason" [call of duty quote]

[Ladis]

its more about "how well it works", "is it usable to run some simple stuff on e.g. raspberry" "what are the numbers Mason" [call of duty quote]

Yes, half the apps is about runs/doesn't run. But I would not care about the performance on RPi - it's very old and thus very slow CPU compared to the modern Cortex SoCs.

[qarium]

I know who will win. I'm more curious in which programs in Linux the native emulators will give better performance than the Linux version of Rosetta 2, which compiles Ahead-of-Time (but relies on the strong memory model support in Apple Silicon - apps could be pinned to one CPU core to avoid the missing feature on Cortex SoCs, thus the benefit of non-Apple emulators would be only in heavily multithread apps).

is it about who wins ? i don't think so... the apple hardware is of course faster but you do not get it for 200€

the last rockchip 3388s benchmark was CPU only would be interesting to have some GPU benchmarks to.