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Re: PowerPC emulation on x86 possible?
« on: November 06, 2003, 08:53:20 PM »
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A 3GHz x86 CPU emulating a PPC has got to be faster than a 600MHz G3 or near enough same speed though.


With MMU emulation it is going to crawl.
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Re: PowerPC emulation on x86 possible?
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2003, 12:30:30 PM »
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Maybe SysInfo does, but I wrote my own speed tester that simply times how long it takes to execute 10000 loops of testing every 68K instruction in as many different addressing modes I could think of.


Can I have this? I'd like to check it out on MorphOS.
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Re: PowerPC emulation on x86 possible?
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2003, 04:38:04 PM »
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Sysspeed just shows 2500 mips coz the JIT skips the fake instructions from Sysspeed so it thinks it's that fast..... same as on mos .... but the actuall speed is much lower.


Very true. Those speed testers are not reliable with JIT. Pegasos
G3@600MHz gave 3200 MIPS with SysSpeed.

Measuring the real performance of virtual CPU is very difficult. I
tried Bloodline's speedtest and test loops were completed in less than
1/50th of second.

Real world applications are needed to test emulation performance in
meaningful way.
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