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- PowerPC (powerUP) support via licensed SuperView-Library
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- [ Please see ReadMe_REGISTER for where to find pricing information ]
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- Concept
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- The most time-consuming routines of certain modules of SuperView-Library
- have been ported to native PowerPC code and perhaps will profit a lot
- from the presence of an installed powerUP system.
-
- These "native modules" are located in a new subdirectory of LIBS:
- called "svppc/", with subdirectories for each of SuperView-Library's
- module types.
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- If any "native modules" are present, these will be used whenever applicable.
- Should none of these modules be available, then this does not matter, since
- the plain 68k code (which may be optimized for a certain 68k CPU, though)
- will be used instead (fallback option).
-
- Note, that SuperView-Library's native modules won't replace any of the
- existing libraries or modules as such - they only do supply specialized
- routines in native code for certain tasks.
-
- When running any PowerPC code, you should have made sure, that there's
- enough RAM on the powerUP board available - at least in an A4000 the
- RAM interface from the CPU card (e.g. A3640) to the mainboard is so
- slow, that even a 68040 could not access Fast RAM with full speed,
- so possibly a PowerPC would suffer from the same problem.
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- You should take care, that there's still enough "fast" Fast RAM available,
- even if all the libraries and code have been loaded: usually the graphics
- are loaded at last - a 1024x768 graphics in 24 Bit will just take 2.4 MB
- and in a dithered version again around 790 K.
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- If there's enough "fast" Fast RAM available, you can expect high speed
- increases with most basic operations, especially when internal representation
- conversions do take place.
-
-
- (See the documentation of the single modules for further information.
- PowerUP support usually is marked separately, on top of the
- module documentation.)
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- Availability
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- NONE OF THE PPC MODULES ARE FREEWARE - THEY WON'T APPEAR ON AMINET.
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- More than 20 modules are made available in a special powerUP PPC plugin
- module package, which e.g. can be bought by registered SuperView/SViewNG
- users or will be included with some commercial programs.
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- Also, there will follow some PPC modules, which will only be available
- for exclusive shipment with some commercial programs (as also are the
- concerned SV modules).
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- This is high end software, and it's development must be financed
- - so you have to pay for it to help ensuring further development.
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