On Sat, 2001-12-29 at 10:37, Rob van der Heij wrote:

> And since you run in a virtual machine you probably care about CP overhead.
> A virtual machine runs at native speed under control of SIE until it touches any
> of the architecture items marked for interception (at that point the control
> program will further complete the virtualisation or deal with the intercept 
>otherwise).
> The smaller the number of SIE intercepts, the closer the virtual machine gets to
> native speed.

This I understand in theory; in practice, what, if anything, can an
application writer do to minimize this?

And what does "SIE" mean?

Erik

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