Re: QEMU (was: benchmark between aranym and crest)

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Kars de Jong wrote:
> On do, 2006-10-12 at 18:37 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > > So we see that aranym-amd64 and aranym-i386 are about the same
> > > > speed, that crest is between 3 and 4 times faster and that the
> > > > host is between 250 and 400 times faster.
> > > 
> > > Thanks for doing such an extensive benchmark. For testing package builds,
> > > we really need Petr's disk access speedups ...
> > 
> > Which brings us to another question: would qemu for m68k be faster?
> 
> Heh. It probably would be.
> 
> I once started an m68k version, thinking it might help Debian. I had
> most of the complicated addressing modes implemented too. I got stuck
> when I ran into FPU instructions in the C startup code.

Generating an exception and just letting the FPU emulator in the kernel
handle it didn't work?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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