Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 13:30:14 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Al Stodolski <STODOLSK@symbol.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux emulation Message-ID: <19981031133014.A2302@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <s63acc3b.086@roadrunner.symbol.com>; from "Al Stodolski" on Sat Oct 31 08:36:43 GMT 1998 References: <s63acc3b.086@roadrunner.symbol.com>
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In the last episode (Oct 31), Al Stodolski said: > Is there a compromise in performance for anyone who runs Linux apps > using emulation in FreeBSD? I'm finding very few apps out there > built specifically for FreeBSD. I'm recalling how badly the Mac OS > ran Windows apps using an emulation package called SoftPC. That's because SoftPC had to emulate the entire IBM-PC architecture, including the x86 processor, FPU, video, etc. All our Linuxulator has to do is translate Linux system calls into the appropriate FreeBSD ones, a much simpler task. For most programs, you shouldn't see any speed loss running a program under emulation. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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