A new emulator
I have just come across a new PC emulator for Mac OS X (it works on Panther only), the iEmulator. 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:
There are also movies 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
?
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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!
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 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
?