The answer to this question is best found in Kevin Lawton's old postings to the mailinglist. Go to www.plex86.org and look for the stuff about the mailinglist archives.
Roy Souther wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I am curious about the way instruction emulation happens in the virtual > system and way that it could be faster. > > Is each instruction translated and emulated one at a time? This would be the > easiest for the developers. My idea is that if the software was to keep a > list of the most commonly emulated sequences and when one of these common > sequences of instructions is called rather then emulate them one at a time > the system would recall the emulation that was previously translated. This > would use more memory but I think it could drasticly increase the speed of > the emulation because of the constant amount of calls that M$ OS's repeatedly > make to the same instructions. > > Having no knowledge of how the software currently works, I could be totally > wrong here. I would like to know a little more about it and if my idea has > merit. > > - -- > Roy Souther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > www.SiliconTao.com > > Linux, overcomming barriers, removing walls of confinement > and smashing windows. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAjx/pCYACgkQCbnxcmEBt43O8ACgu09L7GSKXZVHql4BE04bO9in > D3AAn3eQVhgP8eA1k68zEi6oi1ceivRk > =4AQM > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- |^^^ | | |^^| |^^^ Drew Northup, N1XIM |^^| | |^^^ \ / /^^\ /^^~ |__ | | | | | |__| | |___ \/ |__| |__ | | | | | | www.plex86.org | | | /\ | | | \ ___| |__| |__| |___ web.syr.edu/~suoc/ | |___ |___ / \ \__/ \__/
