On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:12:26 +0300 (MSK), Sintsov Dmitri wrote:
>Right, and there are Sparcs and others. I guess Kevin simply doesn't have
>a time to run both projects at once. Perhaps also because pushing the
>performance of bochs is probably a lot more time-consuming task cause it
>requires much heavier dynamical translation than plex86. To me, plex86
>looks like logical step towards future bochs.
>Uhus
Frankly, I think we have Plex86 because Kevin realized the monumental
task to improve Bochs to the point where it were, say, even 50% of the
speed of the underlying hardware. That's not to say that improvements
to Bochs won't improve Plex86. I have a feeling that parts will flow
pretty freely back and forth.
The other this is that Bochs is usable. Slow, but it compiles and
runs. Plex86 doesn't. Once Plex86 gets to that stage, it's quite
likely that more work will be done on Bochs, or at least back-and-forth
between the two of them. For example, I envision that Bochs and Plex86
might eventually be two items that get plugged into the same framework.
Want virtualization? Use Plex86. Need full emulation? Turn on
Bochs. The GUI components, configuration system, commonly emulated
components, etc. would all be part of that framework.
Tim Massey
