Re: [hatari-users] OSX performance issue

[Eero T. <oa...@he...>]

Hi,

On Sunday 26 October 2008, Oisín Mac Fhearaí wrote:
> > Recent build means CVS HEAD?  In which version of Hatari this was
> > better?
>
> Yeah, I think I got it from CVS, unless there was a source tarball. It
> reports itself as v1.0.1. The previous version I'd been using was
> 0.9.5 from apparently May 2007.

Hatari emulation has been improved significantly between those versions.
This means that it uses more CPU for the emulation (difference is even
larger to something like v0.50).


[...]
> Maybe I'll try QuickST or some other benchmark program in windowed and
> fullscreen modes.

It measures the emulated system speed (which doesn't change regardless
of how fast Hatari can run it), not the speed of Hatari.


[...]
> Will try to pull from CVS and use auto-frameskip.

When you build it, please make sure that optimizations are enabled (-O2).

The OSX (SDL) clock may be less accurate than on Linux.  If this is
the case, auto-frameskip may be less useful, but let us know how it works!


	- Eero