Jamie Lokier wrote: > Alexander Graf wrote: > >> I believe the 5% performance hit >> that goes with them is no real problem, as most people should be using >> x86_64 nowadays anyway. >> > > *Boggle*! x86_64 is only a few years old, and cheap low-power x86_64 > laptops are relatively recent. > > -- Jamie > > So you really want to do dynamic retranslation on ancient hardware? To me emulated systems already feel slow on really recent machines, I don't want to go back to something even slower. If you use kqemu there even is near no performance hit at all, which I believe is the main use of qemu on i386 anyway. Furthermore x86_64 is _way_ faster, as it provides a lot more registers.
I think the benefit you get from cutting the gcc3 dependency is way more important than a major performance hit that people will usually only see on the next release of qemu, by which time things have shifted towards x86_64 even more. Regards, Alex
