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 _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
