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Date: April 21, 2004 at 11:12:39
Subject: Re: AMD64-extension in software
In Reply To: AMD64-extension in software by
Richard Doofkopp on April 20, 2004 at 17:51:00
Text: | it should be possible to emulate amd64 only with a small performance-penalty.

That's an elegant theory, but looses something in translation. You'd surely need to emulate damn near the entire instruction set, a process several orders of magnitude slower than native.


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