Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] OSX x86_32 host support

[Thiemo Seufer]

Alexander Graf wrote:
[snip]
> I was saying "let's finally make qemu gcc4-save, so we can drop this  
> gcc3 dependency. The only platform that might get a performance hit from 
> that is i386 and I was trying to show why a small performance hit on i386 
> is no real problem if we can use gcc4 for every target instead.

Keep in mind that there's a lot of i386 software out there (Windows for
a start) which needs as guest either hardware virtualization or kqemu.
kqemu needs a 32-bit host in that case. Also, old non-VT hardware will
stay around for a while, and 32-bit host OSes probably even longer.


Thiemo