Karlos: Yeah - ironic really. You think 'fewer instructions' equates to 'simpler to emulate' but in fact it's not really the case at all here.
Isn't true RISC code about 1.5 times bigger than CISC code in executable format?
I'm no electrical engineer, obviously, but are all 32 bits used for instructions, or instructions AND data? How many instructions are there on a PPC?
I don't doubt emulating PPC is tough and slow, but does *any* CPU has 65K+ instructions. :-?