[Wowfunhappy]

I'd expect it to be exactly as performant as qemu's x86 emulation always is. The M1 is new, but qemu is not.

[fomine3]

So it means plain old binary translation without hardware assist. I wonder that whether QEMU's binary translation is not optimized well nowadays because no one uses it for production (we use with VT-x/EPT or AMD equivalent).

[ogre_codes]

I think QEMU is hardware emulation, not translation.

[fomine3]

Qemu provides both device emulation, and x86 emulation by binary translation. Use qemu-kvm to accelerate x86 emulation by hardware assist.