Michel Dänzer wrote:
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.
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.
/Arne