What does HackerNews think of FEX?

A fast usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator for Arm64

Language: C++

#18 in C++
#5 in Emulator
#72 in Linux
Asahi Linux M1 GPU drivers can now run Windows games via Steam Proton | Mar 2023
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It's explained in the video, it uses https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX
Quick Look at Rosetta on Linux | Jun 2022
FEX is the open source equivalent: https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX
Linux Has Grown into a Viable PC Gaming Platform and the Steam Stats Prove It | Dec 2021
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Valve is funding a separate effort for an x86-on-ARM emulator: https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX
Box64 lets you run x86_64 programs on non-x86_64 systems | Nov 2021
FEX-Emu is a similar program. Not sure which one is better. https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX
Booting a macOS Apple Silicon Kernel in QEMU | Nov 2020
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It's because Qemu is several orders of magnitude slower, it's not even in the same class of solution.

FEX is an experimental open-source solution at https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX, but it's still in heavy development.