Subject: Re: plex86 vs bochs
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: None <collver1@attbi.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/26/2003 15:19:18
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:05:54PM +0200, Christian Biere wrote:
> 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.

You misread what I wrote...

On my system, bochs is running 100x as fast as plex86.

So for some reason plex86 is running very, very slowly.

Ben