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- From: storm@ar.ar.com.au (Storm)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: One hardware-basher's manifesto
- Date: 29 Feb 1996 09:50:27 +1100
- Organization: I need to put my ORGANIZATION here.
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- Stephan Schaem (sschaem@teleport.com) wrote:
- : Steffen Haeuser (magicsn@birdland.es.bawue.de) wrote:
-
- : : I just am tired of Demos that have me to switch off all caches to get them
- : : running. My Speed tests gave a performance loss of 75% for this... :(
-
- : Some demo/game turn them off for you... 60fps is 60fps, why would one want
- : to run at 105 fps? but thats another matter
-
- I've only turned caches off in one demo.. "Red Planet".. but all the routines
- in that were timed to run at 50fps on an A500, so throwing away 75% of the
- speed of a machine 20x as fast didn't seem like a problem.
-
- (btw we killed the caches due to rampant self-modifying code)
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