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Switch performs better running games through an emulator emulating the switch than natively. (streamable.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

This is actually not surprising to me. I heard that Windows used to perform better on a virtual machine with a Linux host. The Linux kernel is very mature, and virtual machines (or emulators) use tricks to improve performance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

This has been big on some of AMD's workstation and server chips because Windows generally doesn't know what to do with the unexpected NUMA Node layouts. Or the scheduler just can't handle 128 cores. So abstracting that away with Linux's superior scheduler can help significantly on certain hardware

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I think a bigger factor is the memory and resources reserved for the account system / store / online services, etc. But also, yeah the emulator might be more efficient on a few calls