| From: | Alan Buxey |
| Date: | 23 Apr 2001 at 17:37:19 |
| Subject: | Re: Common misconception (was Re: Voyager Image Decoders) |
hi,
> Now, when your PPC processor only clocks in at 4x the speed of your 68k
> processor, and there are some HIDEOUSLY complex FPU things that a 68k
> will do that a PPC doesn't (even the 68060, which had it's FPU rationalised)
> you can see where the performance hit is.
>
> At 50MHz, the 68060 FPU would outperform the 603e FPU :P
ummm, I have many FPU programs which will easily say otherwise. I guess
even those people with the latest Imagine CUP will prefer the PPC
rendering to that of the 060
> > is much better..did I say native PPC disk access?? :-)
>
> scsi rul0rz ;P
easily...but having the PPC run the filesystem is nice. I'm not happy
enough to let sys: run on SFS, but SFS under MorphOS is very nice
alan
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