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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [4514] convert remaining segment handling to TCG
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 21:19:39 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <483467BB.7000803@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48345E88.5080908@bellard.org>

Fabrice Bellard wrote:
>>
>> Does qemu generate different code when the segment bases are zero?  
>> The segment base additions can be trivially avoided in this case.
>
> Yes, but only when DS, ES and SS have zero bases.
>

Sure, that's the common case.

On a slightly different subject, are you considering improving tcg 
optimization?  It can even be made dynamic, with aggressive optimization 
only kicking in if a block has been executed a large number of times.

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-05-21 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-21 16:34 [Qemu-devel] [4514] convert remaining segment handling to TCG Fabrice Bellard
2008-05-21 17:01 ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-21 17:40   ` Fabrice Bellard
2008-05-21 18:19     ` Avi Kivity [this message]

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