Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-system-i386 vs qemu-system-x86_64 ?

[Michael Tokarev]

On 14.09.2012 14:00, Jan Kiszka wrote:
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> The major difference in qemu-system-i386 vs. qemu-system-x86_64 is on
> the TCG side: We measured noticeable performance benefits when running
> 32/16 bit OSes against qemu-system-i386 vs. using qemu-system-x86_64. I
> don't have numbers at hand, but colleagues decided to use the 32-bit
> version for that reason (when no KVM is available).

Interesting.  Maybe someone should look at the difference on TCG side
and merge interesting bits from i386 to x86_64... :)

The thing is: x86_64 becomes the only x86 platform these days, or at
least the MAIN platform.

Thank you for the clarification -- very useful information indeed!

/mjt