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felix86 is a new open source Linux emulator to run x86-64 Linux programs on RISC-V processors (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Yes, JIT is used for both, but we don't call JITing of Java/.Net bytecode "emulation" because there is no hardware that natively runs bytecode that we are emulating. Unlike x86_64 asm, bytecode is designed to be JITed. But yes, JITing is the defacto strategy for efficiently emulating one piece of hardware on another.