| From: | John Niclasen |
| Date: | 14 Sep 2000 at 13:36:08 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Re: |
Jim Peters wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 08:25:25AM +0200, Juan Carlos Marcos Rodr�guez wrote:
> > 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.
I agree, this is very interesting! And throw in an add-on in the
translator, and you could end up solving the MP (Memory Protection)
problem, instead of the traditional MMU way.
B)
John Niclasen
Denmark.
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