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by ksk 4463 days ago
>but the application code is emulated. It's faster than you think, and Apple has already done it twice: once in 1994, and once in 2005 (exercise for the reader: try extrapolating).

Well in PowerPC->x86 transition x86 was the faster chip. The emulation cost was discounted by some amount. If you go from x86->ARM, ARM is the slower chip, so there's never going to be _improvement_ in performance compared to x86. I don't see why you're equating the two.