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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] tcg/interpreter: Add TCG + interpreter
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To: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, TeLeMan <geleman@gmail.com>, Stuart Brady <stuart.brady@gmail.com>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On 09/17/2011 10:59 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:
> Hello,
>
> these patches add a new code generator (TCG target) to qemu.
>
> Unlike other tcg target code generators, this one does not generate
> machine code for some cpu. It generates machine independent bytecode
> which is interpreted later. That's why I called it TCI (tiny code
> interpreter).
>
> I wrote most of the code two years ago and included feedback and
> contributions from several QEMU developers, notably TeleMan,
> Stuart Brady, Blue Swirl and Malc. See the history here:
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-09/msg01710.html
>
> Since that time, I used TCI regularly, added small fixes and improvements
> and rebased it to latest QEMU. Some versions were tested using
> ARM (emulated and real), PowerPC (emulated) and MIPS (emulated) hosts,
> but normally I run it on i386 and x86_64 hosts.
>
> I'd appreciate to see TCI in QEMU 1.0.

Next: a gcc target of (and a port of Linux to) tci, so we can run guests 
with tcg disabled.

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