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		saagarjha on Dec 3, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: M1 Macs: Truth and Truthiness There’s no hardware instruction translation.

ithkuil on Dec 4, 2020 [–]

there is little hardware assist though: TSO can be enabled and disabled and thus simplifying x86 instruction translation by implementing the x86 memory model in hardware and thus avoiding unnecessary memory barriers

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