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To: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
Cc: =?UTF-8?B?cg==?= <andreas.faerber@web.de>, =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBGw6RyYmU=?=@gnu.org, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

  On 09/05/2010 07:25 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
>
>> I'm perfectly fine with dropping it.  btw, there are other features in qemu
>> that seem to be academic exercises - *-user for example.  What is it useful
>> for?  Most open source stuff is multiplatform, and serious commercial work
>> needs something faster than tcg.
> *-user can be used by developers to make specific tests with TCG more
> easily and faster than with system emulation.

Maybe we need a unit test framework instead?  Translating system calls 
is a lot of work for testing a jitter.

(of course, *-user exists, so why not use it)

> I think someone also
> used it to run Wine on PPC.

That's dead now.  And in any case, it would be too slow for production 
use of contemporary software.

-- 
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