| From: | Jim Peters |
| Date: | 14 Sep 2000 at 10:25:27 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Re: |
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 08:25:25AM +0200, Juan Carlos Marcos Rodr�guez wrote:
> >> Also HP have done some work on processors emulating
> >> themselves, and incrementally improving their code
> >> during that .. might be worth right the next look.
>
> I remember the Dynamo project, a shocking technique for a CPU interpreting
> code it can already run, because its native. Major speedups are reported.
> The Arstechnica website (a pretty good one, by the way) had a very nice
> feature about it (http://arstechnica.com/reviews/1q00/dynamo/dynamo-1.html).
This is very very interesting. This suggests that a Dynamo-type
translator working at run-time translating the VP code to optimised
native code could do a better job than any amount of compile-time
optimisation to native code. If a technology like Dynamo comes to the
Amiga (or if we already have it !), then VP code will actually be
faster than native code in many cases. Certainly something to think
about.
Jim