Thank's for the answer : my question was not with writing assembler X86 in mind but only to imagine what can be SMSQ's speed running on a native hardware of the same generation as PC harware. That is : tremendous.
But running QPC on today (#1GHz) machines is already a great achievement. Well done Marcel. Claude -----Message d'origine----- De : Marcel Kilgus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoy� : mercredi 10 octobre 2001 22:13 � : ql-users Objet : Re: [ql-users] Need some flaming :-) - What about re-writing QDOS for x86 processors Claude Mourier 00 wrote: > I wonder what is QPC overhead (it's not to offense Marcel : QPC is a great > product) : does anybody know the slowdown factor eaten by the emulator, or > in other word, what is the factor to apply to the speed of SMSQ under QPC to > have an idea of SMSQ speed written directly for x86 ? Depends on too many factors. As QPC's currently only an interpreter, 20 or more could be feasible. I expect much less for a JIT compiler version, but I don't know whether that will ever happen. Anyway x86 assembler is something nobody wants to program really, especially when coming from the 68k corner, believe me. Marcel
