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

[Aurelien Jarno]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 02:03:58PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> On 14.09.2012 14:00, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> []
> > 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... :)

Most of the code between i386 and x86_64 is basically the same. For
improving TCG performances, the only interesting thing to merge from i386 to
x86_64 would be the use 32-bit registers instead of 64-bit registers. Oh
wait...

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