On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Aurelien Jarno <aurel...@aurel32.net> wrote: > On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 11:29:20PM +0200, Artyom Tarasenko wrote: >> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Torbjorn Granlund <t...@gmplib.org> wrote: >> > The 2nd table of http://gmplib.org/devel/testsystems.html shows all >> > emulated systems I am using, most of which are qemu-based. >> >> Do I read it correct that qemu-system-ppc64 with the slowdown factor >> of 33 is ~3 times faster than qemu-system-sparc64 with the slowdown >> factor of 96 ? >> Do they both use Debian Wheezy guest? You have a remark that ppc64 has >> problems with its clock. Was it taken into account when the slowdown >> factors were calculated? >> > > Clock or not, it should be noted that qemu-system-sparc64 is undoubtedly > slower (at least 5 to 10 times) than qemu-system-{arm,ppc,mips,...} on > some type of load like perl scripts.
That's interesting. Actually it should be possible to lauch perl under user mode qemu-sparc32plus. Is it possible to launch perl under user mode qemu-ppc{32,64} too? That would allow to understand whether the bad performance has to do with TCG or the rest of the system emulation. Artyom -- Regards, Artyom Tarasenko linux/sparc and solaris/sparc under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/search/label/qemu