Profiled my JIT Rust aarch64 emulator:

- Around 7-8% of time is spent executing translated guest code
- #cranelift codegen takes 45.7% of time
- its register allocator, regalloc, takes an additional 19%
- Basic runtime logic such as MMU virtual address translation takes only 2% (with TLB caching)

This results in taking almost 40 seconds to boot to Linux prompt. QEMU takes a few seconds.

Replacing the JIT is tempting...

#Rust #arm #arm64 #aarch64 #emulation #emulator #simulans