Re: Fastcode - Sponsoring

> > Forgive me if I'm ignorant. Is there nothing available in the wild
> > that runs as an emulator for the processors you wish to test
> > against? In my embedded development days, this was the norm.
> > Perhaps nothing like this exists for PC CPUs?
>
> If it did exist, which I do not think it does for all CPUs, it would
> not be very usful for benchmarking. Emulators generally do not run as
> fast as the real deal and the relitave speed is diffrent for each
> instruction.

But it might be useful for validation. The Open Source emulator Bochs
can emulate 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium Pro or AMD64. If 486 would be
supported then testing on an emulator would be better than not testing
at all.

http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
.

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