Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> writes:

> There are two justifications for making this change. The first is that
> i386 emulation is typically for smaller machines where having a 1gb of
> generated code is overkill for basic emulation. The second is the
> propensity of self-modifying code (c.f. Doom/edit) utilised on i386
> systems can trigger a rapid growth in invalidated and re-translated
> buffers. This is seen in bug #283. Execution is still inefficient but
> at least the host memory isn't so aggressively used up.
>
> That said it's still really just a sticking plaster for user
> convenience.

ping?


-- 
Alex Bennée

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