| From: | david260179 |
| Date: | 11 Jul 2001 at 08:48:38 |
| Subject: | Oh dear! |
saw this on the haage-partner website:
Our suspicions were confirmed, and this statement can be found in the
product AmigaWriter. Here we went through a great deal of trouble to
create a special Phase5-PPC optimised version. This resulted in a
speed-increase of 5 to 30% with some functions. This a far away from
the expected 5 to 10-fold speed increase (5-fold because of the 5x
higher tact rate of the PPC, and doubling speed through the superior
techniques of the CPU).
Other programmers can readily testify to this fact. However, there
are exceptions; such as when a program is divided into ideal modules,
and can perform the pure calculations on the PPC as long as possible
without having to switch to the 68k. Examples of this are Tornado3D
and Wildfire, which actually achieve a 5 to 10-fold speed increase
with the PPC.
In the past we have often contemplated whether we should publish this
viewpoint or not. We chose not to, as we wouldn't endanger the market
any further, since for publishers and retailers it has been a
declining venture for a long time. We've been hoping for the release
of "real" PPC-boards for the Amiga (we had known of at least half a
dozen such projects). It's surprising that hardly anyone wondered why
we didn't publish a PPC-version of our programs, when we mentioned in
the StormC advertisements that only a new compilation would be needed
for it. Had we been under pressure from the Amiga community, we
probably would have made this statement earlier, but since no-one
asked...
Markus Nerding (e-Mail)
Managing Director
now you tell us!!
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