PB
01-25-2005, 03:24 AM
I have just come across a new PC emulator for Mac OS X (it works on Panther only), the iEmulator (http://www.iemulator.com/). It is a budget software really (at $23.95) and it is based on QEMU. The makers say that it performs very well on G5s:
Could you please define "high performance"? We've all heard that one before.
Of course, emulated code will always run slower than native code, all other things being equal. On a PowerBook G4 (15", 1.5GHz) we've seen performance benchmarks ranging from a 200MHz Pentium (running graphics-heavy code on Windows XP) and a 550MHz Pentium (running DOS). On a PowerMac G5, we've seen integer performance benchmark as high as 1.4GHz and floating point performance hit as fast as a 3.2GHz Pentium!
There are also movies (http://www.iemulator.com/movies.php) showing it in action.
All in all a very interesting alternative to VPC, although I don't get the numbers for the G5 performance. Who will be the first to try it :) ?
Could you please define "high performance"? We've all heard that one before.
Of course, emulated code will always run slower than native code, all other things being equal. On a PowerBook G4 (15", 1.5GHz) we've seen performance benchmarks ranging from a 200MHz Pentium (running graphics-heavy code on Windows XP) and a 550MHz Pentium (running DOS). On a PowerMac G5, we've seen integer performance benchmark as high as 1.4GHz and floating point performance hit as fast as a 3.2GHz Pentium!
There are also movies (http://www.iemulator.com/movies.php) showing it in action.
All in all a very interesting alternative to VPC, although I don't get the numbers for the G5 performance. Who will be the first to try it :) ?