[Info-vax] VUPS.COM relevance for modern CPUs

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-12-19, abrsvc <dansabrservices at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> 
>> Regarding your comment about testing in an emulated environment, don't 
>> forget that VirtualBox is NOT an emulator, but a virtualisation mechanism. 
>> 
>> That means operating systems running under it should be running at close 
>> to native hardware performance speeds and it means you should be testing 
>> the x86-64 performance against physical Alpha machines, not emulated ones.
>> Simon. 
>> 
> I never said that the tests run by Mark were done on an emulated environment.  Don't infer things that are not there.
>
> What I suggested was that it would be interesting to see what the use of his "new" option would show on an emulated system.  No mention of anything other than that.  I still think it would be interesting to see if the correlation of "real" to emulated holds using Mark's test when compared to using the original VUPS procedure.
>

Dan, you are _way_ too quick to read bad things into my comments. :-(

Read the quoted comment above again, and you will see I am talking about
the emulator tests _you_ are planning to do and I was pointing out that
Mark's tests should have been done at somewhere close to his native
hardware speed.

Simon.

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