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by coldtea 3563 days ago
>Apple adds features like PCI-e for discrete GPU support (ok, they did in A9), and if Ax series performance starts to exceed corresponding Intel mobile parts by >50% (enough to compensate for the overhead of binary translation for legacy x86 apps).

When it happens, it might not need binary translation.

http://lowlevelbits.org/bitcode-demystified/