jor1k VS v86

If the title is true, that would be a huge achievement. Unfortunately, the page says nothing about how it works and nothing about the speed advantage you get.

For my emulator jor1k [1] I tried something similar years ago [2]. However I haven't continued on this topic because of priority shifts. But the potential speed advantages are astonishing. My proof of context reached more than 1 billion emulated machine instructions per second.

[1] https://github.com/s-macke/jor1k

[2] https://github.com/s-macke/jor1k/wiki/Breaking-the-1-billion...

In case y'all missed it in the first post, and you just want to try this out, it's working in this v86 image:

https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=custom&m=768&vram=16&hda.url=ht...

You can start tailscaled and tailscale inside the VM. It may take a while to come online sometimes due to limited proxy availability.

I've got a hobby OS that's currently x86 32-bit only. amd64 and arm64 are on my roadmap, but if all goes well, it's going to be the same experience on all three platforms, so arm64 won't be anymore exciting than x86 32-bit. Other than, you could run it on a raspberry pi or maybe an arm apple.

I imagine most hobby OSes are looking at arm support vs adding something else, and arm support is going to be more fiddly and have less to show for it. I haven't found much time to work on mine lately, but other things are way more important like getting my virtio-net driver and the v86 virtio-net device to work together; having networking in https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=crazierl would be really neat. Running on a pi would be neat too, but a browser demo is way more accessible.

Not a bad idea. Arch also comes to mind, and its support on https://copy.sh/v86/ is a testament to its flexibility.

import { useEffect } from 'react'; function App() { useEffect(function initializeEmulator(){ // See https://github.com/copy/v86/blob/master/src/browser/starter.js for options window.emulator = new window.V86({ wasm_path: '/v86.wasm', screen_container: document.getElementById("screen_container"), bios: { url: "/bios/seabios.bin", }, vga_bios: { url: "/bios/vgabios.bin", }, hda: { // Hard Disk url: "/images/fd12-base.img", async: true, size: 419430400, // Recommended to add size of the image in URL. see https://github.com/copy/v86/blob/master/src/browser/starter.js }, autostart: true, }); }, []); return (

Initializing Emulator…div> canvas> div> ); } export default App;