TheOtherDave comments on Open Thread, May 1-14, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AspiringRationalist 02 May 2013 03:35:22AM 8 points [-]

Emulators are slow due to being on different hardware than the device they are emulating. If you're also on inferior hardware to the device you're trying to emulate, it will be very slow.

That said, even a very slow Hawking emulator is a pretty cool thing to have.