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Cc: Lior Vernia <liorvern@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, =?UTF-8?B?6Zmz6Z+L5Lu7?= <chenwj@iis.sinica.edu.tw>, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>

Il 25/05/2013 21:06, Andreas Färber ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> Am 24.05.2013 21:24, schrieb Lior Vernia:
>> I am running x86 applications on an ARM device using QEMU, and found
>> it too slow for my needs.
> 
> Before we start going into technical details, what are you trying to
> achieve on a high level and how did you try to do it?
> 
> Are you using qemu-system-x86_64 or qemu-x86_64? The latest v1.5.0?

In either case, one problem would be the 64-bit operations.
qemu-system-i386 and qemu-i386 would probably be a bit faster, if you
are running 32-bit only.

Paolo