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- From: Joe Wood <joe@cri.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.be
- Subject: Re: 1995 Production Status?
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:32:11 -0500
- Organization: Coherent Research, Inc.
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- Neil O'Rourke wrote:
-
- > All these abstraction layers, they have a heck of an impact on performance
- > don't they? I've been following in Byte about the next MacOS release with
- > full hardware abstraction, and it seems that they have to crank up the
- > clock speed just to keep applications running at the same apparent speed.
- >
-
- I'd guess that the abstraction has to cause some slowdown, but it seems
- to me like it is worth it to get platform independence. Give the
- hardware six months, and it will catch up to the previous performance.
- After that, you get the benefits of being able to choose your software
- and hardware independently.
-
- I also think that the abstraction will gradually cause less of a
- slowdown as time goes by, in the same sense that compilers get better
- and better at making tighter code from the abstraction layer of the
- programming language.
-
- --
- Joe Wood [joe@cri.com]
- Sr. Software Engineer
- Coherent Research, Inc.
- East Syracuse, NY
-