IDC: Windows Phone climbs to second place in Latin America

22 August, 2013
Microsoft's mobile OS has made decent gains and has captured a quarter of the market.

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  • txj
  • 22 Aug 2013

sadly, emulator in WP8 & WinRT is inefficient.

emulator normally uses dynarec/JIT compilation to speed up execution. unfortunately, JIT compilation is not possible in WP/WinRT, because WP/WinRT doesn't allow writable executable memory. (same thing with non-jailbroken iOS, they don't allow writable executable memory)

the result is, all emulator in WP/WinRT are currently using interpreter mode, which is very slow, and can fry your phone pretty fast :D

emulators for GBC, GBA, SNES, Genesis, can still run full speed on WP/WinRT, although they will suck your battery dry because they use 5-7x more power than other platform that support dynarec (android, jailbroken iOS).

emulators for PSX, PSP, NDS are clearly unplayable on WP/WinRT, unless you have a very _very_ powerful device.

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    • w98
    • 22 Aug 2013

    Any specific reasons as to why such a difference in Latin American region?

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      • Anonymous
      • tUd
      • 22 Aug 2013

      yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

      my vision vomes true

      we are comming lagoid for squzing u and punching u and terminate u from the universe

      we r the windows boys

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        • AnonD-27765
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        • 22 Aug 2013

        Well, there is no other way for Windows Phone to go but UP!

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