The biggest single difference between emulation and virtualization is that with virtualization, the guest operating system and applications are run natively; they can directly use the system processor ...

Program portability is coming to an embedded processor near you, courtesy of Transitive Technologies' dynamic binary translation software, Dynamite. This San Diego ...

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Bitter wars have been fought over processor architectures and some, such as the fight between ARM and the x86, continue to rage. But the realisation that computer processor instructions sets do more ...

If instruction sets didn't matter, processors would be cheaper and designers would have more options. That's why one startup's efforts are so intriguing. Every microprocessor is different, in part ...

Over the past few years a number of teams have been putting a lot of effort into taking beloved Nintendo 64 games, decompiling them, and lovingly crafting them into highly portable C code. This allows ...

Over the past few years a number of teams have been putting a lot of effort into taking beloved Nintendo 64 games, decompiling them, and lovingly crafting them into highly portable C code. This allows ...