Dolphin on a Single Core Toshiba Laptop?

[chenxiaolong]

I have a quad core and it runs perfectly on that. I have a Dell Studio with a dual core and it runs perfectly. I understand that the games were made for the Wii. I just don't know what is so different about the PPC architecture that makes it run slower on the x86 architecture. Is it doing an "on-the-fly" recompiling and translating of the code while the games run?