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arm64 is not that interesting due the toxic IP tied to this ISA. Would be more interesting to target RISC-V.

ARM64 is interesting because a ton of people have ARM64 hardware. In an ideal world we'd all be using RISC-V rather than either ARM64 or x86_64, but we're a long, long way away from that.

ARM64 is very interesting because some of the best laptop hardware in existence (best battery life, screens, etc.) use it.

ARM does indeed have benefits, but if the most notable ones to you are laptop hardware and screen quality then I'd argue that ARM doesn't really interest you at all.

Smartphones, tablets and ARM64 server deployments vastly outnumber these luxury segment consumer devices.

There is a much better business case for x86 binary translation outside of a lineup of laptops relatively few people own (despite the crowd having formidable purchasing power)

RISC-V may become the open source ARM, or it may be a complete bust. At this point, either could happen. As it is now, there are only a few hardware implementations and all of them are dog slow compared to ARM.

With RISC-V having shipped billions of cores in 2022, the latter is unlikely.

RISC-V has a minimal installed based and ARM64 doesn’t. Therefore the potential number of users positively impacted by further development is larger.

Fortunately, the author seems to care[0].

0. https://forum.rvspace.org/t/work-on-risc-v-dynarec-for-box64...

You keep repeating that the Arm isa has toxic or super-toxic IP. Are you implying that it can actively harm users of the Arm ISA or do you just object to anything with proprietary IP?

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