Re: [ES40-developers] ES40 Emulator Status Update

[Camiel V. <iam...@gm...>]

Hi Fausto,

I've used the economy package, and I didn't come across that command.
I've added pre-built development (.lib) and runtime (.dll) libraries
to the download page on sourceforge.

Camiel.

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Fausto Saporito <fa...@un...> wrote:
> Hello Camiel,
>
>  this is very interesting news...
>  Just a question about POCO libraries: which one we have to compile?
>  the light version, or the enterprise?
>  I'm trying to compile and install the light one, but I have a problem
>  because the visual studio file looks for "mc" command.
>
>  What's that command?
>  Do you have the same problem?
>
>  regards,
>  fausto
>
>
>
>  Quoting Camiel Vanderhoeven <iam...@gm...>:
>
>  > Hello Everyone,
>  >
>  > This e-mail is to inform you that I have just applied a very large
>  > patch to CVS that affects the entire emulator. Over the past few
>  > weeks,. we've run into the limitations of running everything in a
>  > single clock-loop, calling devices' DoClock() functions. This leads to
>  > wildly varying CPU speed, and does not efficiently the processing
>  > power of modern multi-core/multi-processor CPU's.
>  >
>  > The patch that has just been committed gets rid of the DoClock()
>  > functions, and instead lets each device run its own threads as needed.
>  > If you have a dual-core system, the emulated CPU could run on one
>  > core, with the other core taking care of all other devices.
>  >
>  > This is a patch I've been working on for a long time, and it's been a
>  > bit of a pain keeping it in sync with all the other changes that have
>  > happened in the past few weeks, which is why I'm committing it so soon
>  > after the release of 0.19.
>  >
>  > So far the good news, now the bad news:
>  >
>  > This patch is a radical departure from the way we used to do things,
>  > and it breaks a couple of things. The <break> menu on the Serial
>  > console lost it's functionality. IDB doesn't work yet. And, most
>  > importantly, this release probably introduces bugs caused by threads
>  > accessing the same thing at the same time. These issues will all need
>  > to be addressed in the next couple of weeks. Everyone can help out by
>  > submitting bug reports to this list for anything that doesn't work as
>  > expected.
>  >
>  > You will need to install the Poco C++ libraries for the new code to compile.
>  >
>  > The new approach also opens the door to emulating multiple CPU's,
>  > although that is not functional yet. I'm working hard on this, but I'm
>  > missing something in the initialization. The basic bits and pieces are
>  > in place, but the extra cpu's never come fully online. If you think
>  > you can help with this, please contact me.
>  >
>  > I've created a new CVS branch ("no-threading") before this patch that
>  > will be used for necessary bugfixes to the version 0.19 codebase.
>  >
>  > Regards,
>  >
>  > Camiel Vanderhoeven.
>  >
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