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Gavare's eXperimental Emulator -- GXemul 0.3.6.2 |
Gavare's eXperimental Emulator -- GXemul 0.3.7 |
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Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Anders Gavare. |
Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Anders Gavare. |
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hardware components are emulated well enough to let unmodified operating |
hardware components are emulated well enough to let unmodified operating |
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systems (e.g. NetBSD) run as if they were running on a real machine. |
systems (e.g. NetBSD) run as if they were running on a real machine. |
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The processor architecture best emulated by GXemul is MIPS, but other |
MIPS processors are emulated using either a simple binary translation |
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architectures are also partially emulated. |
layer ("recompilation"), which is used on Alpha and i386 hosts, or by |
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traditional interpretation (very very slow, but works on any host platform). |
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ARM and PowerPC processors are emulated using a newer dynamic translation |
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system. Performance is somewhere between traditional interpretation and |
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dynamic recompilation; however, the dynamic translation system used in |
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GXemul does NOT require platform-specific back-end code. In plain English, |
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this means that the dyntrans system works on any host platform. |
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(PowerPC emulation is still relatively new in 0.3.7, so dont't expect too |
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much from it.) |
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Quick start |
Quick start |