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> translating x86 code to x86 code

My understanding is that it doesn't do any of this. Windows programs generally don't make direct syscalls, they're undocumented and only used by Microsoft-written DLLs. Wine provides a re-implementation of these DLLs suitable for Unix-like systems. The code of the program itself is untranslated and runs as-is with no performance loss.



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