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Box64 v0.3.6 Brings Better AVX Handling, Volatile Metadata For Windows Executables
Just a few days after the FEX 2506 release for that open-source emulator enabling x86_64 binaries to run on ARM64 (AArch64) hosts, Box64 is out with its newest feature update for this open-source project with similar goals.
Box64 v0.3.6 brings support for building the WowBox64 wowbox64.dll library directly from the Box64 source repository for helping with integration for Hangover, the Wine-based downstream that can leverage Box64 and other emulators for running cross-architecture. Leveraging the Volatile Metadata support allows only applying strong memory ordering when needed and can help with overall performance. Today's Box64 release also brings better x87 / SSE / AVX handling, wrapping more libraries, and a number of ARM64 / LoongArch64 / RISC-V RV64 targeted fixes.
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