No JIT so performance will be limited, however, a massive step forward for sure.
Test it out today. The limitations are apparent. Without the JIT it’s noticeable on my iPad compared to my mac. I actually thought it wasn’t working - turns out it was just sssuuuuppppeerrrr slow. Happy to support its development though. I’d love to be able to run my development environment on my iPad one day.
I have a functional version of Windows 95 on my phone now, so that’s neat. XP setup was too slow and I got impatient.
I like the direction Apple is going in. Probably not surprising given that their competitors (Microsoft and Google) make Shittier products every year, so they can try to get some consumers to switch that normally wouldn’t consider Apple products.
To be fair: they didn’t start going this direction voluntarily, which I really hate.
They did not recognize that these things (like USB-C, alternate AppStores (and in Extension allowing emulation as people would more likely to jump on the other AppStores without it), …) would be helpful for them…
How well does it run Half Life Alyx on the Apple Vision Pro?
This emulator, without JIT, struggles to run windows XP. Let alone anything newer than that.
So no Half Life Alyx anytime soon. Maybe the original Half Life.
Why is JIT not being allowed in the app store?
Apple only allows JIT for development. Why? Only Apple knows.
Yep. I actually hate that.
That wouldn’t work even if you could get a modern OS to run well
Whoosh
