From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JEqRA-0001jf-U0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:23:01 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JEqR9-0001ir-Al for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:23:00 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JEqR8-0001ib-Vh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:22:59 -0500 Received: from relay01.mx.bawue.net ([193.7.176.67]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JEqR8-0003Ax-OG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:22:58 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:23:30 +0000 From: Thiemo Seufer Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] OSX x86_32 host support Message-ID: <20080115182330.GA9767@networkno.de> References: <7BE93927-F16C-4CA5-86DC-F17955A0A67C@kberg.ch> <20080115131359.GC11941@shareable.org> <478CE001.4000907@csgraf.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alexander Graf Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Alexander Graf wrote: [snip] > I was saying "let's finally make qemu gcc4-save, so we can drop this > gcc3 dependency. The only platform that might get a performance hit from > that is i386 and I was trying to show why a small performance hit on i386 > is no real problem if we can use gcc4 for every target instead. Keep in mind that there's a lot of i386 software out there (Windows for a start) which needs as guest either hardware virtualization or kqemu. kqemu needs a 32-bit host in that case. Also, old non-VT hardware will stay around for a while, and 32-bit host OSes probably even longer. Thiemo