Opensource PPC emulation for Linux x86

[Hammer]

Deleted due to double posting.

[Hammer]

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.

What about running AOS 68K Cinema 4D R4.2 as a benchmark program?

KennyR wrote:

Karlos wrote:
Kenny - Its a JIT, not an interpreter ;-)

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.

I recall, 68000 has 19 registers i.e. 8 of them are for general data registers, 7 general for address registers and I can't remember the rest. I also recall, 68020 have slightly more registers than the 68000.

Note that, just having (exposed) 8 general purpose registers didn't stop AMD32 processors in emulating AMD64 processor (via SimNOW). AMD64 has 16 exposed general purpose registers (AMD64 mode only).

PS; One could use Pentium IV's  hyper-treading(tricky) for playing with a total of 16 (8 + general purpose registers...

[Hammer]

In a world of people who want 52x angle-grinder CD-ROMs just because the number is bigger (even though they are slower than 32x in most uses), I guess not many.

My old LG 52X (max) speed CD-ROM is faster than my ancient Acer 36X (max) speed CD-ROM.