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by throwasehasdwi 3272 days ago
In this case I would say the lack of details is a good thing. It must work so well that they can keep it a secret from major vendors. If it wasn't near native speed or had bad x86/x64 ISA support they would be giving a heads up to the bigger software shops.
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From the 68K to PPC migration at Apple, I remember software spent much more time running system code than application code (listening for events, redrawing stuff, and so on). It's true PPC was much faster than 68K and that made the move easier, but, still, just not having to emulate anything beyond the system library calls is great.
It has no x64 support...
It hasn't because it's based on a Microsoft product which already existed - Virtual PC for PowerPC Macs.