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Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-system-sparc question?
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Paul Brook |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-system-sparc question? |
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Sat, 14 Oct 2006 15:11:57 +0100 |
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On Saturday 14 October 2006 09:14, Blue Swirl wrote:
> >There's no such think as an Ideal cpu. It's like picking the right
> >religion :-) If you want a toy cpu, there are things like mmix.
>
> In general true. But the real and toy CPUs are designed with the hardware
> construction in mind, whereas the limitations deriving from HW (number of
> registers, number of instructions, instruction complexity) may be less
> relevant in the Qemu case. Also Qemu could benefit from getting information
> analysed from the source code that no real HW needs. For example, perhaps
> the TB state could be managed explicitly by the compiler.
There are plenty of pre-existing dynamic compilation targets, pretty much all
of which have JIT compilers. eg. JVM, CIL and parrot. IMHO qemu probably
isn't a particularly good base for this sort of thing, as it's more oriented
towards emulating conventional CPUs.
Paul
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-system-sparc question?, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-system-sparc question?, K. Richard Pixley, 2006/10/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-system-sparc question?, Johannes Schindelin, 2006/10/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-system-sparc question?, Blue Swirl, 2006/10/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-system-sparc question?, K. Richard Pixley, 2006/10/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-system-sparc question?, Paul Brook, 2006/10/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-system-sparc question?, Blue Swirl, 2006/10/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-system-sparc question?,
Paul Brook <=
Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-system-sparc question?, Aurelien Jarno, 2006/10/10
Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-system-sparc question?, Ben Taylor, 2006/10/11