From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GM7kf-0003P4-B5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 14:40:25 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GM7kd-0003O8-Hq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 14:40:24 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GM7kd-0003O5-Ed for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 14:40:23 -0400 Received: from [65.74.133.4] (helo=mail.codesourcery.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GM7lV-0002Sc-Gs for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 14:41:17 -0400 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] relative time Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 19:40:14 +0100 References: <450309C3.9070403@bluegap.ch> In-Reply-To: <450309C3.9070403@bluegap.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609091940.14981.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org > Now the more complex one: I would like to do 'relative benchmarks', i.e. > comparing one product to another. I don't mind very much how fast my > machines are, but I want them to be equally fast, even if I use two, > three or ten of those on my machine. qemu is not, and does not try to be cycle accurate. Any benchamrks you do on qemu bear no relationship whatsoever to how things will perform on real hardware. Paul