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From: rcohen@monmouth.com (Robert Cohen)
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Subject: Re: Slow LW 4.0/4.1 for Amiga
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> I doubt NewTek planned LW 4.1 to be slower on the Amiga. I would guess
>that NewTek probably was not too enthusiatic about releasing 4.0 for the
>Amiga simply because it was a dying platform and is way behind in speed
>comparisions to all otehr LW platforms. Don;t even mention the 060 to me.
>It;s slower than a P90 and LW can not esily be compiled to take advantage
>of the 060 chip..due to the lack of comiler support in the Amiga
>commpunity..perhaps someone will develope a 060 compiler to meet the
>demand..NewTek could have taken the easy way out and just update LW Amiga
>to 3.9 (a hypothetical LW with 4.0 features except for the plugin
>architecture)...I have a feeling it was Allen and Stuart who pushed hard
>for the Amiga LW...It isnot NewTeks fault that LW renders slower..it is
>the programers fault..and i doubt Allen and Stuart would release a slower
>LW if it could be avoided..So thank all your lucky stars it is
>finally out for our dino, the Amiga.
I know next to nothing about programming, but I have a hard time understanding
why they simply did not just use the old compiler. OK, perhaps there were a
few things that could not be done with the old compiler, but they could have
made the extra effort to program their way around it. And yes, plug in's
would have been nice for the Amiga, but as long as there is Arexx, Amiga users
would get by. But to have a slowup of more than 200 percent on an already
slow system does not make very much sense to me at all... AND as someone else
pointed out is just plain unacceptable, valid reasons or not.