Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] OSX x86_32 host support

2008-01-15 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 15.01.2008 um 18:50 schrieb Alexander Graf: On Jan 15, 2008, at 6:30 PM, Andreas Färber wrote: Am 15.01.2008 um 17:32 schrieb Alexander Graf: 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

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] OSX x86_32 host support

2008-01-15 Thread Alexander Graf
On Jan 15, 2008, at 7:23 PM, Thiemo Seufer wrote: Alexander Graf wrote: [snip] I was saying "let's finally make qemu gcc4-save, so we can drop this gcc3 dependency. The only platform that might get a performance hit from that is i386 and I was trying to show why a small performance hit on

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] OSX x86_32 host support

2008-01-15 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Alexander Graf wrote: [snip] > I was saying "let's finally make qemu gcc4-save, so we can drop this > gcc3 dependency. The only platform that might get a performance hit from > that is i386 and I was trying to show why a small performance hit on i386 > is no real problem if we can use gcc4 for

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] OSX x86_32 host support

2008-01-15 Thread Jamie Lokier
Alexander Graf wrote: > 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 > >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] OSX x86_32 host support

2008-01-15 Thread Alexander Graf
On Jan 15, 2008, at 6:50 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: On Jan 15, 2008, at 6:30 PM, Andreas Färber wrote: Am 15.01.2008 um 17:32 schrieb Alexander Graf: Jamie Lokier wrote: Alexander Graf wrote: I believe the 5% performance hit that goes with them is no real problem, as most people should

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] OSX x86_32 host support

2008-01-15 Thread Alexander Graf
On Jan 15, 2008, at 6:30 PM, Andreas Färber wrote: Am 15.01.2008 um 17:32 schrieb Alexander Graf: 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_

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] OSX x86_32 host support

2008-01-15 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 15.01.2008 um 17:32 schrieb Alexander Graf: 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

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] OSX x86_32 host support

2008-01-15 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Alexander Graf wrote: > 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 c

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] OSX x86_32 host support

2008-01-15 Thread Alexander Graf
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 re

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] OSX x86_32 host support

2008-01-15 Thread Jamie Lokier
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

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] OSX x86_32 host support

2008-01-14 Thread Mike Kronenberg
Alex, You'll find the patches at [1] It's basically an adaption of Pauls, Gwenoles and the Qs gcc4 OS X x86 patches. I'd rather go with Michael Matz's gcc4 patches. They look more sane and clean to me than Gwenoles do and I believe the 5% performance hit that goes with them is no real p

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] OSX x86_32 host support

2008-01-14 Thread Alexander Graf
On Jan 14, 2008, at 12:43 AM, Mike Kronenberg wrote: Looks like I'm a little late for the party, as always :) . I really encourage everyone to work towards a gcc4.x solution for OS X. I just read and tried Alexanders x86_64 patch, as I finished our x86_32. If we could reach an out of the

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] OSX x86_32 host support

2008-01-13 Thread Mike Kronenberg
Looks like I'm a little late for the party, as always :) . I really encourage everyone to work towards a gcc4.x solution for OS X. I just read and tried Alexanders x86_64 patch, as I finished our x86_32. If we could reach an out of the box solution for OS X, that would be great! You'll find