[Info-vax] rx2800i2 sales/support window changes

[JF Mezei]

On 14-02-17 12:28, Shael Richmond wrote:

> I finally got an answer from Stromasys that said an emulated DS25 would be slower than the actual DS25.  However I could have it emulate two cores to get better performance at the cost of buying additional VMS licenses.


Does this imply that the emulator makes limited use of multi core x86 to
emulate a single core Alpha ?

Does the emulator use 2 x86 cores ? One for the translator and one to
run the translated code ?

Obviously, an Alpha app designed to run on a single CPU won't benefit
from additional VMS instances. But if you have an app that can spread
the load between multiple CPUs, then having the emulator emulate more
than 1 core would make a big difference, especially if you would
otherwise have 2 x86 core stay idle.