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From:Alan Buxey
Date:10 May 2001 at 10:30:59
Subject:Re: Speedtest

hi,

> A new beta of the PPC renderer for Imagine has just been released.
>
> There might be some speed ups from one version of Imagine to the next
> even on 68k. For instance, the texture plugins come in versions for
> 68040 and 68060.

yes - and thats the way you compare the performance of the 0x0 chips -
whats the point of not using the new functionality of the latest chips?

if you disable the burst/data/caches, the preloads, the FPU, the MMU etc
then the 060 aint that much faster than the 040

> So you would need to be sure what you were comparing.

sure, that'd just be an extra field....eg

system speed imagine version

alan

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