System and method for increasing performance in multi-CPU simulation

摘要

A system and method for increasing performance in a simulator environment operable to simulate a multiprocessor platform with program code running thereon. A set of processors are initialized upon instantiating the simulator environment on a host machine for executing the program code instructions. Code execution on a simulated processor is suspended by executing a simulator API routine which is called when the program code is to enter an idle state. The host resources that would otherwise have been spent on the processor running the idle loops are therefore conserved for use by the remaining processors.