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So how does that work given that most Steam games are x86/x64 and the M2 is an ARM processor? Does it emulate an x86 CPU? Isn't that slow, given that it's an entirely different architecture, or is there some kind of secret sauce?
Emulation.
Definitely going to incur a performance hit relative to native code, but in principle it could be perfectly good. It's not like the GPU is running x86 code in the first place. On macOS, Apple provides Rosetta to run x86 Mac apps, and it's very, very good. Not sure how FEX compares.
Virtualization actually, dont know why though
Why not click the link and find out? It's literally a Mastodon post, you don't even have to read much.
The post doesn't answer the questions, it's why I asked.
It says:
Now I know some of these words, but it does not answer my question.
You asked how it works, the post states how it works. You also asked if it's slow, which is clearly answered in the post (though you didn't quote that part). You also asked if there's some "secret sauce" allowing it to be fast, which is also a weird question since everything used is listed in the post.
If something wasn't clear to you, why not specifically ask about it? Even in this comment, you still don't specify what you don't understand. What kind of answer are you expecting to get?
You can Google the words you don't know, and find out that it does in fact answer your question.
Yeah god forbid people have some interesting discussion on this platform, right?
Just to offer some support, you're right and those are good questions