Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 11:05:10 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: dnelson@emsphone.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, STODOLSK@symbol.com Subject: Re: Linux emulation Message-ID: <199811021605.LAA00733@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <19981031133014.A2302@emsphone.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 > Just to add a litle to this - in fact, several people have reported a speed increase when running Linux programs on FreeBSD (on equivalent hardware.) - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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