Re: [Qemu-devel] Interpreter for QEMU

[Fabrice Bellard]

malc wrote:

> > It is true that a solution must be found to accelerate the DOS programs,
> > especially when soft mmu is not in use. [When soft mmu is in use, it is
> > possible to examine exactly each write access to see if the translated
> > code is modified with a byte granularity].
>
>
> I have tried running some demos with softmmu, it provides no noticable
> benefit over hard one. 

Write accesses are not verified with a byte granularity yet, but I will 
add it soon. It should accelerate the case where code and data are 
intermixed.

> If not pagefaults then constant translation block
> generation/recycling will take its toll (but this probably covers mostly
> real-mode or before watcom came into fashion p-mode programs, not that
> i havent seen quite ingenious SMC in DOS4G/W applications)

For self-modifying code, I agree that the translation/recycling stuff is 
_very_ slow...

Fabrice.