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From: Michael Gagnon <mgagnon1@gmu.edu>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Time complexity for self-modifying code
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:01:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45CB81B5.9080405@gmu.edu> (raw)

Hello.  I'm a student at George Mason University and I had a question 
regarding the time complexity of QEMU's algorithm for dealing with 
self-modifying code. 

 From looking at the QEMU Internals documentation 
(http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-tech.html), it seems that 
QEMU's method for handling self-modifying code might have different 
algorithmic efficiency classes for it's average case and worst case.  As 
in, on average I assume that QEMU emulates instructions at O(n) 
efficiency.  In the worst-case, might self-modifying code change the 
efficiency of QEMU to another order of efficiency, such as O(n^2)?  Any 
thoughts would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!

Mike Gagnon
http://www.mikegagnon.com

             reply	other threads:[~2007-02-08 20:09 UTC|newest]

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2007-02-08 20:01 Michael Gagnon [this message]
2007-02-08 20:37 ` [Qemu-devel] Time complexity for self-modifying code Paul Brook

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