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Sunil Amitkumar Janki schrieb:
> Dan Shearer wrote:
>> You do also have the architectures provided to you by QEMU :-) :-)
>>   
> 
> I have been able to build modular Xorg for Armedslack in QEMU without
> having the hardware but when I tried to port Slackware 12.0 to SPARC in
> QEMU I found it was way too slow and started looking for some real 
> hardware.
> 
> Maybe in the future where we have all kinds of cheap multicore processors
> this will not matter much but for the moment limited resources are still 
> some
> kind of hindrance to realizing the benefits of multi-architecture 
> emulation.
> 
> Maybe I should trade in my single-core Athlon system for some serious
> quadcore x86_64 chip but I'd rather wait for 16-core Loongson 3 :-).
> 

As Qemu cannot use multicore CPUs (partially due to missing thread 
safety), yet, you won't benefit from this unless you want to run 
multiple instances of Qemu in parallel.

regs,
Jan