eli5: What does people mean when they say that a computer system runs on different architecture from another computer? Like when somebody says that an emulator can run N64 games faster theoretically but because of different architecture in practicality it cant?

Question

eli5: What does people mean when they say that a computer system runs on different architecture from another computer? Like when somebody says that an emulator can run N64 games faster theoretically but because of different architecture in practicality it cant?

In: Technology

Answer 1

The PC is speaking english. The N64 was written in spanish. The PC has more brain power of the N64 but it has to waste a bunch of time translating from spanish to english so it’s slower. (Languages are for example, they’re not actually in English or spanish)