> Quoting Robert Dobbs,
> 
> > I run some emulated binaries (BSDI and Linux), but nothing that is
> > really hefty.  What sort of cost is involved in running these?  
> > Do they run very close to native system speed?
> 
> For Linux binaries, there are 2 issues:
>     1. Loading the binary might take longer, because the Linux shared libs
>        may have to be loaded (if this is the first Linux binary you run). For
>        NetBSD binaries you won't really notice this, because the shared
>        libs have been mapped sometime during system startup when the first
>        shared binary was run. Also some Linux binaries can't be demand paged
>        currently.
>     2. There is a little overhead in some system calls, some structure
>        conversions and copyin/copyout going on. However, this doesn't affect
>        some of the heavily used system calls, like read(2) or write(2).
> 
> For BSDI binaries, point 2 does not apply. I am not sure if they have
> shared libraries yet (does 2.0 have them?).

2.0 has "fixed address" shared libraries (yuck!). Yet more emulation
code to be written :-(

scott