RISC-V fans will be interested in this one. felix86 has been announced as a new project with a first release available that enables you to run x86-64 Linux programs on RISC-V processors on Linux.
In Java or .NET, the JIT is still going from a higher level abstraction to a lower one. You JIT from CIL (common intermediate language) or Java Bytecode down to native machine code.
When you convert from a high level language to a low level language, we call it compiling.
Here, you are translating the native machine code of one architecture to the native machine code of another (x86-64 to RISC-V).
When you run code designed for one platform on another platform, we call it emulation.
JIT means Just-in-Time which just means it happens when you “execute” the code instead of Ahead-of-Time.
In .NET, you have a JIT compiler. Here, you have a JIT emulator.
A JIT is faster than an interpreter. Modern web browsers JIT JavaScript to make it faster.
In Java or .NET, the JIT is still going from a higher level abstraction to a lower one. You JIT from CIL (common intermediate language) or Java Bytecode down to native machine code.
When you convert from a high level language to a low level language, we call it compiling.
Here, you are translating the native machine code of one architecture to the native machine code of another (x86-64 to RISC-V).
When you run code designed for one platform on another platform, we call it emulation.
JIT means Just-in-Time which just means it happens when you “execute” the code instead of Ahead-of-Time.
In .NET, you have a JIT compiler. Here, you have a JIT emulator.
A JIT is faster than an interpreter. Modern web browsers JIT JavaScript to make it faster.