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Re: extremely poor bochs performance



On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 13:45 +0000, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote:
> 
> I realise that I'm not going to get native speed but I would have 
> thought that a 1.5Gz G4 would at least equal the performance of my 
> ageing 1.33GHz Athlon.

I'm afraid that's unrealistic. qemu may be faster, but it's still only
about 1/10 native speed IME, and I suspect it's hard to achieve much
better than that without very complicated caching schemes for translated
code.

> The Athlon is able to run Windows 2000 in bochs at a usable speed.

It may not have to emulate everything in software.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer      |     Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer
Libre software enthusiast    |   http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer



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