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RE: Problems with Big hfvs



>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Miller <wjm@wwa.com> writes:

    Bill> Also, running it on a Pentium Pro, should not speed it up,
    Bill> becuase as far as I know, it is not a true 32 bit app, at
    Bill> least not the DOS version.  If I'm wrong, feel free to let
    Bill> me know.

Executor/DOS is definitely a true 32-bit app.  This is why it requires
an 80386 or better.  Efficient emulation of a 68040 (a 32-bit
processor) with a 16-bit emulator would be extremely difficult.

Executor should run especially well on the Pentium Pro because the
Pentium Pro is less sensitive to 80x86 code optimization issues than
the Pentium.  This helps Executor because:

  1) gcc doesn't do instruction scheduling.
  2) syn68k doesn't do instruction scheduling either.

-Mat


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