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Does putting the emulated Sun3 drive in a host ram-drive improve emulation speed?

April 26, 2017drive emulated emulation host putting speed

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Does putting the emulated Sun3 drive in a host ram-drive improve emulation speed?

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No. If you have sufficient host memory to never swap, the host NetBSD operating system performs well enough that putting the emulated drive in a host-ram drive doesn’t improve things. The emulator is processor bound!