> > I was up until 3:00am studying Qemu, and I came to the conclusion
> that
> > it doesn't make sense to try speeding up the output code, at least
> not
> > yet. A peephole optimizer or hand-coded sequences made to handle
> common
> > combinations of instructions would lead to the problems discus
This conversation, below, is very interesting. It is precisely this
part of QEMU that fascinates me and potentially holds the most promise
for performance gains. I have even imagined using a genetic algorithm
to discover optimal block-sizes and instruction re-ordering and
whatnot. This could be
