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- From: stimber@tbag.org (Scott Timberlake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy ami
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 96 17:54:11 EST
- Organization: Tampa Bay Amiga Group
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <19960328.3E5888.FDE4@tbag.org>
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- SB> >68060 processor runs EVERYTHING much faster than any 040. The programs
- SB> >do NOT have to be optimized for an 040/060 at all. Get a life.
-
- SB> EVERYTHING? :-) Try this then:
-
- SB> move.l#1000000,d3
- SB> loop:muls.l d0,d1:d2
- SB> subq.l#1,d3
- SB> bne.sloop
-
- SB> There are loads more examples where an '040 is faster, since the '060
- SB> designers stripped loads of features from the 68020+ instruction set,
- SB> and those features have to be implemented as traps => slow as hell. In
- SB> general, though, for compiler-generated code the '060 is lots faster.
-
- SB> I find the removal of the muls.l instruction rather strange anyway.
- SB> It's quite useful really.
-
- Here's a totally unrelated question ;-) :
- I have heard rumors of a Lha 2.0 and even a 3.0. Do you actually have any
- plans to make a new version? I would think no, since it has been quite a
- while since I heard those rumors...
- Scott
-
- * Q-Blue 2.0 [NR] *
-