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It shouldn’t be difficult to write a binary translator to run 32-bit executables on a 64-bit userspace. You will take a small performance hit (on top of the per
by cwzwarich 1y ago
It shouldn’t be difficult to write a binary translator to run 32-bit executables on a 64-bit userspace. You will take a small performance hit (on top of the performance hit of using the 32-bit architecture to begin with), but that should be fine for anything old enough to not be recompiled.
- shmerl 1y agoI would guess so, but I haven't seen anyone developing that so far.
- Fulgen 1y agoIn some ways, Windows already does that too - the 32-bit syscall wrappers [switch into a 64-bit code segment](https://aktas.github.io/Heavens-Gate https://aktas.github.io/Heavens-Gate) so the 64-bit ntdll copy can call the 64-bit syscall.
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