Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Apr 2003 11:38:03 -0400 | From | Timothy Miller <> | Subject | Re: Simple x86 Simulator (was: Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!) |
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Steven Augart wrote:
> We could not. Consider just the 8 32-bit-wide legacy x86 registers, > excluding the MMX and FPU registers: > (AX, BX, CX, DX, BP, SI, DI, SP). 32 bits x 8 = 2^256 independent > states to look up in the table, each state having 256 bits of > information. 2^264 total bits of information needed. Assume 1 GB > dimms (2^30 * 8 bits each = 2^33 bits of info), with a volume of 10 > cm^3 per DIMM (including a tiny amount of space for air circulation.). > Need 34508731733952818937173779311385127262255544860851932776 cubic > kilometers of space. > > Considerably larger than the volume of the earth, although admittedly > smaller than the total volume of the universe. > --Steven Augart > >
If this could be done, someone would have done it already.
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