Subject: Re: plex86 vs bochs
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Christian Biere <christianbiere@gmx.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/26/2003 23:05:54
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Hi,

collver1@attbi.com wrote:

> Unintuitively, plex86 runs about 100th the speed of bochs.
> Can anyone tell me if this is normal?

IIRC, plex86 is a fork of bochs. Well, with plex86 most code
runs really on the CPU i.e., plex86 tries to do as few emulation
as possible. So, of course, plex86 is significant faster than bochs
but bochs is portable and should work on SPARC, Alpha, Arcon etc.

-- 
Christian

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