Re: [B2-devel] JIT-enabled BasiliskII for Linux/i386

[Christian B. <cb...@st...>]

Hi!

On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 11:42:22PM +0200, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote:
> How much faster do you think it is ?

If I believe the Speedometer tests, it's 4 times faster than the non-JIT
version. Somewhat like a 100MHz PPC 601 on this PIII/500.

> BTW, do you still intend to add some emul_ops for QuickDraw acceleration ?

Yes, but that would require a non-refreshed video mode, which is hard to
come by these days...

> [Julia's Dream]
> After having read gencpu.c, I noticed a possible bug with CAS and CAS2
> instructions when the noflags handler comes to be used.

Julia's Dream doesn't use CAS, but it uses BFEXTS and the V flag. Might
these be a problem?

> I noticed you also had problems with VOSF under NetBSD/m68k. In
> video_blit.h, does replacing the Duff's Device based blitter with a dumb
> loop copying byte per byte, do any good ?

I will try that.

Bye,
Christian

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