| From: | Andrew Crowe |
| Date: | 31 Aug 2000 at 23:53:26 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga PPC UAE |
Hi Everybody,
>>> Yes, but Basilisk II uses 68K emulation on a P133 and uses the CPU
>>> natively on the 030/25. The point is that a P133 is sufficiently
>>> fast that it's easily capable of emulating a fairly fast 68K
>>> provided it doesn't have to emulate the custom chipset as well.
>
>> Ah, but does your 030 have a gfx card? It may simply be that
>> Basilisk seems faster because it has much faster gfx access.
>
> Valid point - but I was taking that into account.
> On my '030 I'm using 16-colour with a custom video driver which only
> converts an eighth of the screen per frame.
Eww, nice jerky mouse pointer eh? :)
Anyway, don't forget the slow amiga IDE interface too, that'd slow
programs down, especially if you're using fusion with virtual memory.
> I suppose I should do some real benchmarks on my '030/25, '030/50,
> and the 486/66, P133 and K6-II/500 at work - could make interesting
> reading - especially for comparison with the JIT stuff if it ever
> filters through to Basilisk.
Although running benchmark programs don't always give an accurate
picture of speed, unless you ment a more real-world test, like timing
an application or sommin :)
>> Heck, WinUAE is about 10x slower (cpu wise) then my 040 amiga,
>> but scrolling a large 256 colour picture in multiview is much
>> faster in UAE? why? Because winuae has the PC's GFX card, while my
>> A1200 is stuck with AGA :)
>
> (BTW, are you
> talking about WinUAE with virtual P96 emulation?
Yep
> If so, the virtual
> driver might well be using native x86 code to do the blitting - in
> which case it's not a fair comparison.
Exactly :)
See ya :)
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