The performance of Windows for ARM under virtualization on Apple Silicon is nothing short of amazing. I'm able to run Vivado (a CPU intensive x86-64 app written in Java) under Microsoft's x86-64 emulator under Windows 11 ARM under Parallels on an M4 Pro Mini in a 24GB RAM, 6 core virtual machine. It's quite usable, and saves me from having to power up my older 10th gen i7 "tower of doom" when I want to synthesize some Verilog for a Xilinx part. Running Geekbench 6.5.0 in the Windows 11 ARM virtual system gives me a respectable single core 3086 and multi-core 11758.
I'd love to see some reporting that takes a close look at virtualization, what it's capable of, and how well it compares to native solutions.
