| From: | johndavis |
| Date: | 17 Aug 2001 at 15:05:03 |
| Subject: | Re: AmiThlon benchmarks |
--- In amigactive@y..., Alan Buxey <almb@m...> wrote:
> only 50% slower on the PPC and you really have to imagine how
screamingly
> fast a, say 500MHz, G4 CPU would be in an Amiga.
>
> so, in my opinion, yet another reason to lean towards a next
generation
> PPC-powered Amiga :-)
>
> yes, yes, some may say 'ah! but that CPU is emulating 68k, what
about
> native x86? Yes, that would be much faster, but its not applicable
when it
> comes to AmigaOS...and I might just point out that the PPC in those
> benchmarks doesnt have L2 cache and doesnt have decent memory
bandwidth
>
At last, a sensible voice. I'm almost certain that when the G3/4
AmigaOne's ship and the initial OS4.0 ships, there will be enough of
leap forward in speed terms, to stop all this nonsense dead. In all
fairness, 'projects' like this one and the secret (QNX based?) one
tested in AA23 are OK, but ask yourself a question: What do you
really want, an x86 box booting from CD to then run AOS3.9, or a
genuine new shiny G3/4 running OS4.x?
I know the roadmap I'm a-following, and it's not down emulation
Street, that's for sure.
-john
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