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The author states: >" DEC started a project to do dynamic translation from x86 to Alpha; at the time the project started, the projected performance of x86 basi
by bogomipz 9y ago
The author states:
>" DEC started a project to do dynamic translation from x86 to Alpha; at the time the project started, the projected performance of x86 basically running in emulation on Alpha was substantially better than native x86 on Intel chips."
I'm really curious how an Alpha emulating x86 could be faster than the native x86? Can someone shed some light on how this would be possible
- draven 9y agoAnd a bit further in the article: "By the time DEC finished their dynamic translation efforts, x86 in translation was barely faster than native x86 in floating point code, and substantially slower in integer code." So perhaps they were overly optimistic.