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Re: Emulating vintage computers

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emulation trivia

Note upthread mentions helping endicott do 138/148 ECPS ... basically
manual compiling selected code into "native" (micro)code running ten
times faster. Then in the late 90s did some consulting for Fundamental
Software
https://web.archive.org/web/20240130182226/https://www.funsoft.com/

What is this zPDT? (and how does it fit in?)
https://www.itconline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/What-is-zPDT.pdf

More recent versions of zPDT have added a "Just-In-Time" (JIT) compiled
mode to this. Some algorithm determines whether a section of code should
be interpreted or whether it would be better to invest some more initial
cycles to compile the System z instructions into equivalent x86
instructions to simplify the rocess somewhat). This interpreter plus JIT
compiler is what FLEX-ES used to achieve its high performance. FLEX-ES
also cached the compiled sections of code for later reuse. I have not
been able to verify that zPDT does this caching also, but I suspect so.

... snip ...


-- 
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970

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