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---- Alessandro Corradi <ale.corradi@gmail.com> wrote: 
> Hi all,
> This is my question:
> If I run qemu for i386 without kqemu it uses soft-mmu, so it operates as
> another architetture as ppc or mips right?
> So... are the performace of qemu the same if I use i386 or mips or something
> change deeply?
> Example: if I run the same program on i386 emulation without kqemu or on
> mips are the performance circa the same?

Would you expect qemu to perform the same on an AMD 4600X2 as
a 400 Mhz MIPS?

It's probably all relative to the speed of the cpu, host OS, compiler 
optimizations and trans cpu data transforms, as to how well the 
emulated  system performs.