Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics
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Academic paper on binary translation, very deep technically but low immediate actionability.
Summary
Elevator is a novel binary translator that statically converts entire x86-64 executables to AArch64 without heuristics, debug info, or source code. It considers all possible byte interpretations, generating separate translations for each feasible path, pruning only those leading to abnormal termination. The result is a deterministic, self-contained binary with no runtime component, achieving performance comparable to QEMU's JIT on SPECint 2006, at the cost of code size expansion.