| From: | Steffen Haeuser |
| Date: | 13 Dec 99 at 22:57:20 |
| Subject: | Re: [warpup] several questions about ... |
owner-warpup-list@haage-partner.com wrote :
Hi!
ow> Which doesn't give any advantage over the synchronous approach, but
ow> complicates software development significantly. I have never heard about
ow> asynchronously working software running quicker than other ones. This
ow> async-stuff was born at a time, when synchronously working programs
ow> were impossible to do using PowerUp (because of the monster switch delay),
ow> hence Phase5 pushed the async programming a lot by also suggesting, that
ow> this would result into better performance due to CPU parallelism (which
ow> I never believed in and I never say any example proving this theory).
It has also to be pointed out that this "asynchronous approach" would be VERY
BAD for real PPC-only Boards (the 68k task would run in Emulation... if it
would work AT ALL). So i agree with you it should not be recommended - at
least not if not OPTIONAL.
ow> And they are right now going away from AOS. In the past they at least
It would not be the first time for them, right ? :( Moving away from AOS, i
mean...
But they have still to prove if they CAN deliver a product... i highly doubt
this. In the latest mags i read again "P5 will deliver product before
January", but on the other side QNX (whose software P5 wants to use) say they
did not even START porting their OS to PPC... when do they want to do the
software ? Or do they want to deliver the hardware without software ? Does not
sound very professional to me, this all...
Of course Users want to use every hope possible... sure... But i would look
for my hope in other places... unless there is something totally changed about
them, at least.
Steffen Haeuser