From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 2 08:05:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA00914 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 08:05:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from elvis.vnet.net (elvis.vnet.net [166.82.1.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA00907 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 08:05:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by elvis.vnet.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id LAA02019; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 11:04:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA04125; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 11:47:32 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) id LAA00733; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 11:05:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 11:05:10 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199811021605.LAA00733@lakes.dignus.com> To: dnelson@emsphone.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, STODOLSK@symbol.com Subject: Re: Linux emulation In-Reply-To: <19981031133014.A2302@emsphone.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > In the last episode (Oct 31), Al Stodolski said: > > Is there a compromise in performance for anyone who runs Linux apps > > using emulation in FreeBSD? I'm finding very few apps out there > > built specifically for FreeBSD. I'm recalling how badly the Mac OS > > ran Windows apps using an emulation package called SoftPC. > > That's because SoftPC had to emulate the entire IBM-PC architecture, > including the x86 processor, FPU, video, etc. All our Linuxulator has > to do is translate Linux system calls into the appropriate FreeBSD > ones, a much simpler task. For most programs, you shouldn't see any > speed loss running a program under emulation. > > -Dan Nelson > dnelson@emsphone.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Just to add a litle to this - in fact, several people have reported a speed increase when running Linux programs on FreeBSD (on equivalent hardware.) - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message