Right now plex86 runs faster than Bochs (for the most part) when running
user-level (ring3) code--for the short stretches between instructions that need
to be trapped, but it suffers from some implementation problems still. Kevin
is working on these problems right now. For the moment, if you want speed (and
don't want to run the QNX demo-disk, for one), use Bochs. This project isn't
just about getting more speed out of the virtualized hardware--it is about
making an actual open-source _true_ virtualization of the IA-Px architecture
that is both reasonably quick and as complete as possible.
Michael McConnell wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Seth Arnold wrote:
>
> > [btw, whoever manages the list: thank you for the Reply-To: line
> > automatically being set to the list only. None of those hideous CC:s as
> > on other lists.]
> >
> > * Patrick Goldbronn - SFME/LGLS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010410 02:31]:
> > > My question know is about performance !
> >
> > If I recall correctly, someone recently told me that a fast pentium III
> > runs about the same as a pentium 75, though it could have been a 486. I
> > think it may have depended upon how much the FPU is used. <shrug>
>
> Hmm.. when I had a play with it earlier on my AMD K6-2/450, it ran at the
> speed of (what felt like) a 386 running at about 6MHz....
>
> Didn't seem that much faster than the old Bochs emulator...
>
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