| From: | Sam Jordan |
| Date: | 18 Aug 2000 at 19:30:08 |
| Subject: | Re: G3 & CGFX |
Am 17-Aug-00 schrieb Jonathan Hart:
>> Must be one with dynamic recompilation, using a really
>> advanced JIT. BTW, performance measurements when using emulators
>> with dynamic recompilation can be tricky: the code is surely
>> executed very quickly, but at some time it had to be compiled,
>> which takes certainly quite some time (significantly more than just
>> interpreting the code). Such systems tend to slow down when
>> loading programs or when executing very complex/big software.
>Does the news that someones done a JIT version of UAE interest you, seeing
>as you develop the WOS port?
The JIT is anyway an interesting piece of software. But there is
probably not much point concerning the AMIGA version of UAE. It's
mainly used to run old programs that won't run natively. Running
AMIGA-68K programs at fast speed is best achieved by running them
directly, not under emulation... even this JIT won't beat the 060
on current AMIGA-PPC systems, not to talk about the big slowdown
whenever graphics operations take place.
bye