PearPC
PearPC is an architecture-independent PowerPC platform emulator capable of running most PowerPC operating systems, such as Mac OS X, Darwin and Linux. It is released under the GPL. It can be executed on Microsoft Windows, Linux and other systems based on POSIX-X11.The emulator features a Just-in-time (JIT) processor emulation core which dynamically translates PPC code into x86 code, caching the results. Despite running only on x86 host architectures, the JIT emulation core runs at least ten times faster than the architecture-independent generic processor emulation core, and is the key to achieving usable real-time emulation.
PearPC is currently in development and is advancing quickly in speed, stability and features. It is hoped to achieve the goal of 1/10 host speed, ie. the speed of a 300 MHz PowerPC G3 on a 3 GHz Intel Pentium 4, relatively soon.
External links
This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by [ expanding it].