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Re: extremely poor bochs performance



On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 23:11 +0100, Arne Caspari wrote:
> But OTOH VirtualPC for MacOS X is way faster than qemu. I guess the code 
> for those emulators is just not optimized for the PPC. For instance I 
> remember some trick in VirtualPC that accelerates the endianess 
> conversion or something like that.

Yes - PPC chips (up to the 970) could operate in either mode - so they
switched modes as needed. Really neat trick, but broke on the G5. So
they've done it a different way now (for G5s at least).
-- 
Stewart Smith (stewart@flamingspork.com)
http://www.flamingspork.com/

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