On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, J.P. Morris wrote:
> I ask because it's further along than Plex86, and more useful in that it
> will run on future architectures, whereas Plex86 will not.
>
> The bochs web page is kind of messed up (no download links, no mailing
> lists) so I'd like to know what's going on.
>
I hope Kevin won't abandon bochs. There were plans to share the same
device virtualization code (pci,video,sound etc.) among both projects.
Perhaps he will return to bochs in the future.
> Finally, I seem to be getting significantly worse performance with bochs
> on my new 1GHz system than I did on my 400MHz K6.. any ideas?
>
Could be that cause a branch predictor of K6 is one of the best and it's
very important for integer code - I think K6 were faster than PIII/Athlon
when running at the same freq (let's say 400MHz) on integer code.
Unfortunately, K6 arch doesn't scale well beyond 500Mhz and FPU is weak.
There were interesting reviews at www.realworldtech.com and at
www.aceshardware.com (sorry if that's offtopic).
Uhus
