| From: | Paul Heams |
| Date: | 16 Feb 2001 at 23:52:51 |
| Subject: | Re: Morph into Warp |
Hello FERRY
On 25-Feb-01, you wrote:
> Hello Paul
>
> On 16-f�v-01, you wrote:
>
>> So far, only program affected this is the "DeathTrial" demo by Mankind.
>> However, they have already created a fixed version.
>>
>> ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **
>> **
> True !
> just one routine (metaball init at start and metaballs themselves) used a
> struct with word+float. I wasn't aware about that emulation, now I am and
> will never spread progs with non-4bytes aligned float/doubles.
> it's easy to generate one,just use:
>
> struct iwanttobothertimu
> {
> short iamshort;
> float iamfloat;
> }
I only realised this while working on Sid4Amiga some time ago. I couldn't
understand why a new version was so much slower than the previous release.
After retracing my steps I reverted a STRUCT and BANG - fast again. (It would
have been nice for Storm C to mention it as a warning).
> For myself I don't mind !! i will continue coding under warpos,
> aligning my floats, and my future demos will run on both warpos and
> morphos. G4 will came, we will have G4 with both morphos and warpos,
> and it will work.
Agreed. I think that WarpOS emulation in MorphOs is a very good thing. (It
will be even better once I've worked out why it isn't running on my system
anymore). I will also continue coding in WarpOS.
Paul.