@KennyR
Even JIT withers in the face of native speeds. With the best JIT you might get 35% of the host CPU raw speed. Anyone is welcome to correct me, but I remind those reading that standard benchmark results are useless under JIT.
While it is true that standard benchmarks are useless under JIT, real-life application results are not. What exactly do you base that 35% on?
Besides which, PPC has all those registers which it uses a *lot*. x86 has relatively few. Therefore it's only to be expected that PPC emulation is less effective than 68k.
Until someone sees a properly optimised JIT, that's speculation. I distinctly remember people saying similar things about 68k emulation, and we all know what happened there.
Now, with x86 speeds about 3GHz at present, who wants a < 1GHz PPC chip emulated?
As a matter of fact I might. I'd like to test whether my program works under MacOS X, for instance, without going to the stupid expense of buying a Mac or a Pegasos or an AmigaOne, and lightning speed might not be a consideration.
Of course, if I'd have to pay hundreds of $$$ for the emulation, it would be worthless, but if it's open source it sure as hell suits my needs better than hardware I don't have any other use for.
