[sgi_tx]

I recently tried emulating an Indy on MAME, running on an 8th gen i7. Image was on an SSD and the system has 32GB RAM. The experience I had was similar to most descriptions I’ve read; about 30% of a low end Indy.

Which begs the questions:

1. Even if no further changes are made to software, can we expect a doubling of the performance over the next 2-3 years as CPU performance increases?
2. Will overclocking speed things up for now?
3. Does SGI emulation under MAME make use of many cores?

Has anyone attempted to benchmark performance on various host systems? It would be interesting to learn what the bottleneck is.