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X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4864:20::333 X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Kevin Wolf , =?UTF-8?Q?Daniel_P=2E_Berrang=C3=A9?= , Qemu-block , QEMU Developers , Wainer dos Santos Moschetta , Markus Armbruster , Paolo Bonzini , Max Reitz , =?UTF-8?Q?Philippe_Mathieu=2DDaud=C3=A9?= Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 11:00, Peter Maydell wrote= : > > On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 10:40, Alex Benn=C3=A9e wr= ote: > > Thomas Huth writes: > > > What about "-accel any" or "-accel fastest" or something similar? > > > > "any" is just ambiguous, "fastest" is just begging for me to find a > > micro-benchmark that TCG outperforms on ;-) > > > > "-accel default" could be considered to have vibes of Do The Right > > Thing (tm) and could in time actually become so! > > That would be a weird choice, because it's not actually the default! > > The obvious analogy here is with -cpu best, -machine gic-version=3Dbest, > etc -- use "best". You can argue that it's maybe not got the ideal > set of connotations, but I think that trying to be consistent about > the name we use for "do the thing that seems to be the most > sensible for the host/etc that we've got" is worthwhile. This is actually a load of rubbish, because the cpu option is 'max', not 'best'. I still like consistency, though :-) -- PMM