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- From: Jonathan Belson <jon@dookie.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: New C2P
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 96 19:03:42 GMT
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- Jyrki Saarinen (jsaarinen@kone.fipnet.fi) wrote:
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- : > I found a c2p-converter which use selfmodifying code. This one copy
- : > himself to a quadword-align memory-position. Does this give any advantages ?
- : >(I think a 8bpl c2p is small enough to fit into the cache)
- :
- : It is because of the instrction burst in the 68030 and upwards.
- : They benefit of having the loop startpoint 16 bytes aligned.
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- For burst mode to make a difference in execution speed, you need static
- column RAM, surely?
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- C-YA
- Jon
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