The brains behind Apple's Rosetta: Transitive | CNET News.com: "With more computationally intense tasks, the performance of translated software is between 60 percent and 80 percent of native software, Wiederhold said.
Another skeptic is Nathan Brookwood of Insight 64. 'Everybody always has said 50 (percent) or 60 percent and delivered 30 (percent) or 40 percent,' he said. Among those who have tried: Digital Equipment Corp.'s FX!32 to run x86 Windows programs on computers with Alpha chips; Hewlett-Packard's Aries software to run HP-UX software for PA- RISC chips on Itanium; and Intel's IA32-EL software to run software for x86 chips on Itanium."
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